A WRITER'S WIT: JANE SMILEY

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
​Author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
​Born September 26, 1949

J. Smiley

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