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
horse ideas way
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.
sports art horse
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.
horse essence expression
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.
mother horse facts
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.
girl horse husband
But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses
horse racing literature
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.
perfect goal rough-drafts
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.
philosophy order people
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
giving-up people good-intentions
People with good intentions never give up!
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.
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.