More quotes by Jane Smiley
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
She said, “Some are born bossy, some achieve bossiness, and some have bossiness thrust upon them.”
The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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