Jane Smiley Quotes - Page 6

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• My mom was paranoid about my safety.

  Jane Smiley

  Mom, Safety, My Mom

  "A Few Remedies for the Right to Bear Arms" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophy, Order, People

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• 'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophical, Interesting, House

  "Ape House by Sara Gruen - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Nuclear, Four

  "Divorce! It’s Good for the Children!" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.

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• 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.

  Jane Smiley

  Novelists, Groups, Want

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

  Jane Smiley

  College, Years, Law

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

  Jane Smiley

  Community, Individualism, Progressive

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.

  Jane Smiley

  Groups, Analysis, Helping

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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• I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.

  Jane Smiley

  Strong, Sex, Fun

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 4, 2007.

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