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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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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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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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I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.
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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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you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
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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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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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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 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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The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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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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I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
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My mom was paranoid about my safety.
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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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Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
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