Chaim Potok Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Chaim Potok quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased author born on Feb 17, 1929). These are the last 8 out of 28 quotes we have for him.
“I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.”
“In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.”
“Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.”
“I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.”
“Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.”
“I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.”
“There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.”
“Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.”
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