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
mom uncles aunt
Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.
ignorance self mind
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
food years san-francisco
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
names avid poetry
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.
running ideas
My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.
children believe parent
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
favors farming farmers
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
crowds novel
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
character mean flow
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.
book pages firsts
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
views talking america
The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.
writing interesting people
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
fashion art book
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
human-nature cheat free-market
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.