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Jane Smiley Quotes

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The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel  (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  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Your sons weren’t made to like you. That’s what grandchildren are for  (Jane Smiley Quotes) As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral  (Jane Smiley Quotes) I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting  (Jane Smiley Quotes) There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off  (Jane Smiley Quotes) All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture  (Jane Smiley Quotes) A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works  (Jane Smiley Quotes) If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness  (Jane Smiley Quotes) 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  (Jane Smiley Quotes) We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don’t get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much  (Jane Smiley Quotes) I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species  (Jane Smiley Quotes) 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  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse  (Jane Smiley Quotes) I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn  (Jane Smiley Quotes) You know what getting married is? It’s agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you’re the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You’re his responsibility now and he’s yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won’t. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it’s only when that thing arrives that they find out that they’ve been waiting rather than living  (Jane Smiley Quotes) With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief  (Jane Smiley Quotes) 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  (Jane Smiley Quotes) After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can’t keep off the shivering  (Jane Smiley Quotes) The body, the mind, and the spirit don’t form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn’t below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it’s between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can’t get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence  (Jane Smiley Quotes) I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don’t recognize you any longer, that’s the real compliment  (Jane Smiley Quotes) The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories  (Jane Smiley Quotes) The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect  (Jane Smiley Quotes) Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field  (Jane Smiley Quotes)
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