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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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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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A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.
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Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
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The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
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Novelists never have to footnote.
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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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Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
Jane Smiley
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer it's possessed by the reader.
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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
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I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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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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Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
Jane Smiley
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
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The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
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I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.
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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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Respect and fear are two different things.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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