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Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Jane Smiley

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Jane Smiley
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Jane Graves Smiley
Sharp
Hungry
Ears
Ones

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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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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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Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
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A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
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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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My mom was paranoid about my safety.
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Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
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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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But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
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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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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my 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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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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