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
waiting
I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
children ideas may
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.
ideas naps together
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
novel reader possessed
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
ignorance long red
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
perfect firsts
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.
inspirational inspiring book
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
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I suggest that it be used like a trunk full of fabric samples or a box of costume jewelry - it is not to be read through from beginning to end in search of a cohesive argument, but to be rummaged about in, in search of something interesting or striking.
both mind society subversive
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.
both mind society subversive
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.
shocking
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
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he aspired to produce something simultaneously less vulgar and less formless than the novels of the great Victorians, and ... he wished his work to elevate the novel to the status of art.
produce pure
It's pure hackwork. Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have something to say about anything.
produce pure
It's pure hackwork. ... Here it is: I produce fast, I can do it on a deadline, and I usually have something to say about anything.