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
giving trouble give-me
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
teacher true-friend talking
Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose a friend," I said. "Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul." I nodded. "Reuven, if you can, make Danny Saunders your friend." "I like him a lot, abba." "No. Listen to me. I am not talking about only liking him. I am telling you to make him your friend and to let him make you his friend.
america russia carnivals
In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.
two silence coins
A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two
names film
Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.
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.
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.
writing half six
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.
differences lost-friendship honest
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
reality years two
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
father papa world
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
pain mean eye
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what value is there to a human life. There is so much pain in the world. What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? . . .I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.
heaven sake life-is
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
art special way
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.