The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
Alan LightmanI think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
Alan LightmanFranz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.
Alan Lightman"The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
Alan Lightman