Jane Smiley Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Jane Smiley

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Book

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.14, Anchor

• A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Library, Peculiar

• a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Avid, Order

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Feb 23, 2012

• There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Reading, School

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  Jane Smiley

  Fashion, Art, Book

• I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Writing, Editors

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 1, 2010.

• I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Writing, Breathing

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.12, Faber & Faber

• When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Delight, Pages

  "The good companions" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2006.

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