Quotes by : Jane Smiley

Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that.Why....

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big....

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many....

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy,....

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this....

People with good intentions never give up!

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

Evil people must spread their evil everywhere.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast....

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.