"Before I write a novel, images float around……" — Jane Smiley
"Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders."
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102 Quotes by Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley has 102 quotes on this site.
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People with good intentions never give up!
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Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out…
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With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.
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As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
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Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that…
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a…
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew…
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Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the…
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the…
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The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into…
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best…
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I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that…
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More Float Quotes
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one of 287 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.
— John Barrymore
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
— Muhammad Ali
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Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can…
— Julie Andrews
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The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
— Sun Tzu
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The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no…
— Henry McNeal Turner
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven…
— John Milton
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Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn…
— Lewis Thomas
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The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of…
— Wayne Dyer
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Why am I using a new putter? Because the last one didn't float too well.
— Craig Stadler
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When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into…
— Thomas Dolby
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