I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

Quote by Chaim Potok

Topics: Chaim Potok Quotes

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem...

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem...

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire...

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire...

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the...

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the...

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in...

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in...

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is...

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is...

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later...

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later...

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of...

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of...

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the...

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the...

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending...

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending...

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break...

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has...

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure...

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure...

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million...

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million...

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on...

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on...

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want...

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because...

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because...

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully...

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully...

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of...

And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of...

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.