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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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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
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a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.
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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
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Hungry ears are sharp ones.
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I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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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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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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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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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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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
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Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
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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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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
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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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