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Jane Smiley is an accomplished American novelist known for her profound character development and rich imagination. Her works span a variety of literary genres, including historical fiction, contemporary life, and children's literature. Her novels, such as 'A Thousand Acres' and 'Bluebird', have received widespread acclaim.

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“A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.”

Knows Novelists Cusp

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Novelists never have to footnote.”

Novelists Footnotes

Book:Moo

Source: Moo

“I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.”

Way Want Persons Natural Groups Novelists Mesh

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“An urban novelist never minds a little decay.”

Mind Littles Novelists Decay Urban

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“Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.”

Novel Fashion Conservative Surface Novelists Aesthetic Bent Relevance Irrelevance

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival.”

Years Mean Chance Return Intellectual Eras Novelists Revival

Book:13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

Source: 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

“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.”

Writing Two Reading Understood Novelists Writing Life Reading And Writing Two Lives

Author:Jane Smiley

About the Author

Born: September 26, 1949
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 153

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