If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
Jane SmileyThe main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
Jane SmileyIn every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
Jane Smiley