Our Friends Jane Smiley Quotes
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~ Jane Smiley Quote
My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life
~ Jane Smiley Quote
I suggest that it be used like a trunk full of fabric samples or a box of costume jewelry - it is not to be read through from beginning to end in search of a cohesive argument, but to be rummaged about in, in search of something interesting or strikin
~ Jane Smiley Quote
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral
~ Jane Smiley Quote
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
~ Jane Smiley Quote
In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading — one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing — is a subversive force
~ Jane Smiley Quote
He aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the great Victorians, and ... he wished his work to elevate the novel to the status of art
~ Jane Smiley Quote
Writing this book was incredibly fun because I soaked in the bathtub, laid around eating chocolate in bed, cooked dinner for my family and read novels the whole time
~ Jane Smiley Quote
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
~ Jane Smiley Quote
Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
~ Jane Smiley Quote
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
~ Jane Smiley Quote
People with good intentions never give up!
~ Jane Smiley Quote
When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hundred thousand delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely
~ Jane Smiley Quote
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
~ Jane Smiley Quote
It's pure hackwork. ... Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have something to say about anything
~ Jane Smiley Quote