If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it… — Jane Smiley Always Copy Share Image
You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him,… — Jane Smiley Bases Copy Share Image
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I… — Jane Smiley Being Copy Share Image
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom. — Jane Smiley Art Copy Share Image
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. — Jane Smiley Cold Copy Share Image
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. — Jane Smiley Books Copy Share Image
With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley Aging Copy Share Image
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The… — Jane Smiley Belief Copy Share Image
Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There… — Jane Smiley Cease 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
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting… — Jane Smiley Autobiography Copy Share Image
Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community... — Jane Smiley Community 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
As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. — Jane Smiley Communication 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
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. — Jane Smiley Another Copy Share Image
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment? — Jane Smiley Doe 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
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
Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions. — Jane Smiley Delusion 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 Converses Copy Share Image
After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After… — Jane Smiley Chill Copy Share Image
There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. — Jane Smiley Blind Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley Avid Copy Share Image
