Jane Smiley - Life Quotes

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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.

Jane Smiley

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

Jane Smiley

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.

Jane Smiley

You know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

Jane Smiley

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

Jane Smiley