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
artist contrary
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
numbers facts different
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.
giving-up people good-intentions
People with good intentions never give up!
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.
groups want way
I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.
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.
running ideas
My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.
college years law
I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
crowds novel
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
writing novel activity
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
community individualism progressive
Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community.
writing desire novel
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.