Jane Smiley Quotes About Train

Quotes about: Train

• Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

  Jane Smiley

  Dark, Narrative, Firsts

  "The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ideas, Degrees

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.7, Faber & Faber

• Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

  Jane Smiley

  Naps, Ideas, Together

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