Chaim Potok Quotes & Sayings
28 most famous Chaim Potok quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American author who passed away on 23 July, 2002.
“All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.”
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”
“As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.”
“If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.”
“I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.”
“And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.”
“To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.”
“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.”
“A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.”
“It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.”
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