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Ideas Quotes by Jane Smiley
- The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to…
- Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
- I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and…
- 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…
- A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
- Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
- In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured…
- You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera
- I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling