Jane Smiley Quote

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.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)

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.

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.

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.

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.