As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.” — Jane Smiley Flirtation Copy Share Image
My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time. — Jane Smiley Fear Copy Share Image
“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley Borne Copy Share Image
“Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something. — Jane Smiley Essence Copy Share Image
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I… — Jane Smiley Books Copy Share Image
“Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there… — Jane Smiley Facing life Copy Share Image
“Well, being a perfectionist seems okay from the outside, but a perfectionist never enjoys anything, no matter how well it goes, because… — Jane Smiley Perfection Copy Share Image
Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that… — Jane Smiley Art Copy Share Image
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination. — Jane Smiley Business Copy Share Image
everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I… — Jane Smiley Facts Copy Share Image
I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“You know when we came out of the clinic, and we saw those flower beds that we hadn’t seen when we were… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“...but from this distance, the velvety reds, flashing yellows and glassy whites [of the roses] seemed to break up the light of… — Jane Smiley Flowers Copy Share Image
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced… — Jane Smiley Day Copy Share Image
“But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her. Her images, partly memories of… — Jane Smiley Memory Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Art Copy Share Image
“So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Rosie and Mary had taken only a 10 percentage of this privilege - they were three minutes late leaving their room and… — Jane Smiley Midwest Copy Share Image
“She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“A moment later, Jackie lifts himself into a canter. It is analyzable - I have seen the picture of how he steps… — Jane Smiley Time Copy Share Image
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other… — Jane Smiley Abstract Copy Share Image
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice. — Jane Smiley Creativity Copy Share Image
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco. — Jane Smiley Bread Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Failure was startling, really. So startling that I hardly noticed it at all.” — Jane Smiley Failure Copy Share Image
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