Quote by Jane Smiley Download Open image ““...and the thick, sugary covering of the snow...”” — Jane Smiley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“nevermind the snow that falls close to the tree howevere praise the sweet sampling that lays beneath.” — kei Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?” — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels… — Kate Messner Copy Share Image
“It snows. So I don't even have to go to the pond for fresh water — just reach out the door for a handful… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“It is not so much the science of snow for me, anymore. I’d rather just look at it. The light, the way it absorbs… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Still, I remember a more expansive time when the first winter snowfall was a magical act of creation and cold seemed incapable of penetrating… — Eric Schaller Copy Share Image
“..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss… — john geddes Copy Share Image
“... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.” — Carla Reighard Copy Share Image
“A fine white snow floated down as if a baker were in the sky, sifting powdered sugar over a plain, brown world.” — Maureen Doyle McQuerry 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 novelists have… — Jane Smiley 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 others so… — Jane Smiley 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 and sister,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors. — Jane Smiley 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, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley 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, but actually, you never know, just by remembering, how many facts you were allowed to have faced. Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who've really faced the facts. The eerie feeling this… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
“They throw themselves on the waters of the world, and they know they will be borne up.” — Jane Smiley 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
“Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting desperately to fall silent, grow smaller. More than that, I was uncomfortably conscious of my whole body, from the awkward way that the shafts of my hair were thrusting out of my scalp to my feet,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
“She could not have created this moment, these lovely faces, these candles flickering, the flash of the silverware, the fragrances of the food hanging over the table, the heads turning this way and that, the voices murmuring and laughing. She looked at Walter, who was so far away from her, all the way at the other end of the table,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share
Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
