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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. - Jane Smiley

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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. - 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. - Jane Smiley

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