8 Quotes by Jane Smiley about writing

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    Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

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    Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

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    If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

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    Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

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    Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

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    The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

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