Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok
Chaim Potokwas an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen, which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 February 1929
CityBuffalo, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Chaim Potok quotes about
hungry hungry-for-knowledge species
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
writing fiction shapes
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.
giving trouble give-me
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
inspirational needs
We need to listen to one another.
culture impossible antagonism
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
reading media people
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.
religious strong backgrounds
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.
religious fiction tradition
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.
relationship thinking guarantees-that
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
art evil good-art
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.
america russia carnivals
In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.
thinking way three
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.
writing half six
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
men meaning-of-life given
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.