I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
("The Chosen")
More Quotes from Chaim Potok:
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.Chaim Potok
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
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
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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.
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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.
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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
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