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“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”

Jane Smiley

“But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses”

Jane Smiley

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”

Jane Smiley

“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

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck

“A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.”

Jane Smiley

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”

Jane Smiley

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