Jane Smiley citations (7 citations)

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Jane Smiley: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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

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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.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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