Jane Smiley Quotes

"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
- Jane Smiley
(Related: Experience, Motivation, Desire)

"Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel."
- Jane Smiley
(Related: Reading, Sound)

"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."
- Jane Smiley
(Related: Sons)

"A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system."
- Jane Smiley
(Related: Ideas, Belief, May, Will)