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
crowds novel
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
mind littles novelists
An urban novelist never minds a little decay.
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.
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote.
fashion irrelevance novelists
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
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.
eye desire blind
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.
might phrases walkers
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.
life men mind
Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.
two different two-different-things
Respect and fear are two different things.
people eccentric
People are quite frequently eccentric.
care republican fear-of-love
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.