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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
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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 suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
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Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
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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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Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
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Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
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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.
Jane Smiley
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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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 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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Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
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Novelists never have to footnote.
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Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...
Jane Smiley
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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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
Jane Smiley
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
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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.
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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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