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Jane Smiley

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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.


— Jane Smiley


#reading #feeling

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses


— Jane Smiley


#horses #love

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


— Jane Smiley


#fact #reality #life

Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all.


— Jane Smiley


#racing #love

Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges.


— Jane Smiley


#food

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.


— Jane Smiley


#like #made #sons #weren #you

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


— Jane Smiley


#contain #desire #experience #motivation #only

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.


— Jane Smiley


#because #busy #chaos #children #family

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.


— Jane Smiley


#hot tub #i #novel #oh #reading






About Jane Smiley

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Did you know about Jane Smiley?

Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. Biography
Born in Los Angeles California Smiley grew up in Webster Groves Missouri a suburb of St. Works


Novels
Barn Blind (1980)
At Paradise Gate (1981)
Duplicate Keys (1984)
The Greenlanders (1988)
Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
Moo (1995)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
Horse Heaven (2000)
Good Faith (2003)
Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
The Georges and the Jewels (UK title: Nobody's Horse) (2009)
Private Life (2010)


Short story collections
The Age of Grief (1987)


Non-fiction books
Charles Dickens (2003)
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses Humans Love Money and Luck (2004)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
The Man Who Invented The Computer (2010)


Television
"In Search of Crimes Past" episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (teleplay; story by Henry Bromell & Julie Martin) (1995).

Jane Smiley (born September 26 1949) is an American novelist.

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