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Jane Smiley has 102 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God,…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up…
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I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I…
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I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same…
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Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.
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Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes.
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Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends…
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People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for…
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Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
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Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The…
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I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able…
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I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie,…
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The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…
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