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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. - Jane Smiley Quotes

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.

American Writer

he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the great Victorians, and ... he wished his work to elevate the novel to the status of art. - Jane Smiley Quotes

he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the great Victorians, and ... he wished his work to elevate the novel to the status of art.

I suggest that it be used like a trunk full of fabric samples or a box of costume jewelry - it is not to be read through from beginning to end in search of a cohesive argument, but to be rummaged about in, in search of something interesting or striking. - Jane Smiley Quotes

I suggest that it be used like a trunk full of fabric samples or a box of costume jewelry - it is not to be read through from beginning to end in search of a cohesive argument, but to be rummaged about in, in search of something interesting or striking.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel - Jane Smiley Quotes

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. - Jane Smiley Quotes

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

American Writer

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system. - Jane Smiley Quotes

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

American Writer Ideas

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. - Jane Smiley Quotes

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for. - Jane Smiley Quotes

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Sons

Look at Me. - Jane Smiley Quotes

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley Quotes

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

American Writer

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