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Chaim Potok

I don’t work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

– Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

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

Chaim Potok

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

– Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok

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

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

Chaim Potok

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

Chaim Potok

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

– Chaim Potok

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

Chaim Potok

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

Chaim Potok

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.

– Chaim Potok

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

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

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