Jane Smiley Mind Quotations

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing is a subversive force.

In a society that promotes conformity, ... novel-reading ù one person experiencing both the mind of another person and her own mind experiencing ù is a subversive force.