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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.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«When a novel has two hundred thousand words, then it is possible for the reader to experience two hundred thousand delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«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.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the author by means of commerce; this idea is a truism today, but it was new, even revolutionary, for Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and many of their contemporaries.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«[Most interestingly of all, she attempts to show that the novel as a form] has a certain political coloring, because it has to have a certain organization. ... that's a statement that says, 'conformity is not the highest good.' »
Author: Jane Smiley
«My reading had a wonderful effect and it worked in several ways on different levels. It inspired in me the idea that it was OK to go on as a novelist in good faith and that there could be room in my consciousness and the national consciousness about thoughts other than terrorism and 9/11.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading ? one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing ? is a subversive force.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«Another thing I discovered,»
Author: Jane Smiley
«It's pure hackwork. ... Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have something to say about anything.»
Author: Jane Smiley
«It's pure hackwork. Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have something to say about anything.»
Author: Jane Smiley