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
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
“Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.” — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“She knew one of the great family truths, that aunts always help, whilr moms always think it would be good for you… — Jane Smiley Aunts Copy Share Image
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. — Jane Smiley Desire Copy Share Image
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. — Jane Smiley Goal Copy Share Image
A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together. — Jane Smiley Adventure Copy Share Image
“I dream about standing in the lunch line naked. It's always the lunch line in ninth grade. Nakedness dreams are very common.… — Jane Smiley Dream Copy Share Image
“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various… — Jane Smiley Books 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
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
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Agony 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 Copy Share Image
“And of course there was no help for it, except recalling bits of conversations she had overheard from time to time about… — Jane Smiley Communication Copy Share Image
“Laura's gossip was redeemed by its lack of spite. She was warmly objective about every event, taking endless delight in action and… — Jane Smiley Daily life 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
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
“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
“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
“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
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. — Jane Smiley Cold Copy Share Image
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. — Jane Smiley America Copy Share Image
