Chaim Potok Quotes

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Chaim Potok

Profession : Author

Birth : February 17, 1929

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

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

Chaim Potok

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

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Chaim Potok

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Chaim Potok

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

Chaim Potok

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Chaim Potok