Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley
Jane Smileyis an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 September 1949
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
numbers facts different
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
children real thinking
I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.
philosophy order people
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
children self anxiety
I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.
reading play eras
Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
past ignorant sin
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
book library peculiar
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.
reading writing two
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
inspirational success motivation
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
giving-up people good-intentions
People with good intentions never give up!
people waiting aging
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.
grief views personality
With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
political moral conversation
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.