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Jane Smiley
Age: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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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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I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
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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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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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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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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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it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
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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 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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Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.
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There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.
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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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Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
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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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Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.
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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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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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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
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