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
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.
genius daring lively
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
teaching eye thinking
Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.
life summer winter
After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.
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.