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Jane Smiley Quotes

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

Just look at movies. As movies are getting bigger and bigger and more expensive to produce, the screens that people are looking at them are getting smaller. - Jane Smiley

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