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Reading Quotes by Jane Smiley
- Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
- Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times…
- Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
- 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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