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Chaim Potok
American Author
Born: Feb 17, 1929
Died: Jul 23, 2002
Culture Me People Reading Think Work
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
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. Chaim Potok
Home Family Reality Reading Neighborhood Clan Born Brought Small Small Town Particular Town How Up Depending Either Which Realities Us Grow Grow Up Aware Deeply
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. Chaim Potok
Work Time Me Trouble Give Seems Give Me Most Working Each
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. Chaim Potok
Heart World Secular Reading Danny Religious Well Readings His Encounters Very Psychoanalytic Theory Element Chosen
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. Chaim Potok
Work Walk Wife Dinner Long Lunch About Previous Take Until Around Go Up Get Break Decide Again Then Plans Evening
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. Chaim Potok
Today Travel Experience People Become Speed Other Because Readings Very Quickly Human Which Human Experience Planet Media Aware
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. Chaim Potok
Religion Man Experience Odds Ways Religions Countenance Almost Almost All Adversary Another Because Freud Western Human Human Experience View Elements Found Utterly Two
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. Chaim Potok
You Culture Impossible Fuse Totally Feel Antagonism Which Measure
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. Chaim Potok
Work Best Great Relationship History Will Think Our Great Extent Enterprise Out No Guarantee Ongoing Absolutely Divine Advantage Partners Very Automatically Work Out Things Extent Guarantee
I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive. Chaim Potok
Experience Reading Alive Stay Only Argue Altogether Human Order Human Experience Certain Fundamentalism Necessity
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. Chaim Potok
Work Strong Early Work Later Background Diminish Religious Some Tends Foreground Very Certainly Present Early
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. Chaim Potok
People Problem Problems Those Paragraph See About Scene Write Advance Want Proceeds Sentence Explore
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. Chaim Potok
Work Difficult Pretty About Write Writer Shape Him Non-Fiction Refining End Goes Front Fiction Fiction Writer In The End Much Figure Satisfying Her
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. Chaim Potok
Book Typed Once Constantly Entire Through Written Go Revising Again Draft
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. Chaim Potok
Alone Bible Book World Will Consider Way Out Responses Shakespeare Poetry Contemporary Anticipating Modern Sent Forth Fully Novel Homer Elicit

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