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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
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LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
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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.
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There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
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We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.
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I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
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Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.
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Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
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I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning to drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
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Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
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