List of Jane Smiley Quotes

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Jane Smiley
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I spent part of my college years in a marxist commune. i was not a marxist. i wasn't even pretending to be one. i was a marxist-in-law.
College Years Law
I love to write about sex. you just have to make it idiosyncratic. you have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. it's really fun. it's not erotic.
Strong Sex Fun
Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...
Community Individualism Progressive
Every novel deals with social problems. it can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. so the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. otherwise, the reader will just say, "this makes no sense," and will put it away.
Groups Analysis Helping
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.
Novelists Groups Want
I don't know - is everything the u.s. does a shocking embarrassment?
Doe Embarrassment Knows
An urban novelist never minds a little decay.
Mind Novelists Decay
Gossip. the more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
Ideas People Gossip
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.
Horse Ignorance Years
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
Childhood Fundamentals Conditions
Why are we reading a shakespeare play or 'huckleberry finn?' well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
Reading Play Eras
When 'the awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the fine arts club in the same city. what the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.
Art Honesty Home
  • Born: September 26, 1949
  • Occupation: Novelist
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