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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'
Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
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Jane Graves Smiley
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I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.
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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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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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People are quite frequently eccentric.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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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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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 don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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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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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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Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
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There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
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If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.
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Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
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A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
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Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
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