Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most… — Jane Smiley Chance Copy Share Image
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off… — Jane Smiley Cheat Copy Share Image
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother… — Jane Smiley Brother Copy Share Image
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. — Jane Smiley Asks Copy Share Image
You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form,… — Jane Smiley Bed Copy Share Image
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Firsts Copy Share Image
“We watched the swimmers and sunbathers and I thought about this. Had I faced all the facts? It seemed like I had,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley Water 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 Overload Copy Share Image
“Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling… — Jane Smiley Coffee cup 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 Different world 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
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
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s,… — Jane Smiley Building Copy Share Image
One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he… — Jane Smiley Asks Copy Share Image
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family — Jane Smiley Competent Copy Share Image
“She knew she had become the strange sort of lady that she remembered noticing as a child, the sort of lady who… — Jane Smiley Children Copy Share Image
Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God,… — Jane Smiley Children Copy Share Image
There are five things that societies do: They reproduce; they produce food; they organize themselves in terms of law; they organize themselves… — Jane Smiley Art Copy Share Image
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them. — Jane Smiley Half 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
