Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
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Jane Smiley
These are some quotes by American author Jane Smiley Writer, who was born on September 26, 1949.
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I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.