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. Chaim Potok awarecommitmentcore share on social
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 anticipatebiblebook share on social
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 backgrounddiminishearly Change image and share on social
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 alivealtogetherargue Change image and share on social
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. Chaim Potok antagonismculturefeel Change image and share on social
Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. Chaim Potok continuehappytalk Change image and share on social
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 adversarycountenanceelement share on social
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. Chaim Potok givetimetrouble Change image and share on social
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 chipcreatefigure Change image and share on social
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. Chaim Potok beginningconstitutecontend Change image and share on social
