Potok Novel Quotes

#1. This can't be love because love never ends.

Kate McGahan

#2. I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me,

Justin Bieber

#3. Loving Vera Dietz was the scariest thing that ever happened to me.

A.S. King

#4. I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

Moses

#5. 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

#6. She felt like backing into his crotch and pressing her back into his chest. And then maybe rubbing against him a little.

Jessica Lemmon

#7. I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

Chaim Potok

#8. A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

Chaim Potok