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
childhood feelings would-be
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead.
writing desire novel
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
writing novel activity
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.
community individualism progressive
Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community.
revenge facts urges
you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
love-is emotion
Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
lying wicked good-intentions
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.
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.
horse essence expression
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.
family coming-out tolerate
The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.
essence giving charity
The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
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.
children house noise
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.