Quotes by : Jane Smiley

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability,....

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

Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked....

So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away,....

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

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from....

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it....

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the....

Evil people must spread their evil everywhere.

There were no toys under the bed--that wasn't why he liked it. Why he liked it was that there wasn't....