Jane Smiley – When a novel has 200000 words then i…

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When a novel has 200000 words then it is possible for the reader to experience 200000 delights and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again perhaps more intensely.
-Jane Smiley
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I was an only child. I’ve known only children. From this experience I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. -Jane Smiley

When a novel has 200000 words then it is possible for the reader to experience 200000 delights and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again perhaps more intensely. -Jane Smiley

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I discovered that the horse is life itself a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability of life’s generosity and beauty a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. -Jane Smiley

I learned why ‘out riding alone’ is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone is always sensing the other being the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. -Jane Smiley

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Somehow knowing that Alzheimer’s is coming mocks all one’s aspirations – to tell stories to think through certain issues as only a novel can do to be recognised for one’s accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. -Jane Smiley

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