39 Jane Smiley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jane Smiley

American Writer

Born: Sep 26, 1949

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As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring. Jane Smiley

Genius Daring Wright Also Always Lively Specific

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. Jane Smiley

Every Tragedy Gets Wants Novel

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty. Jane Smiley

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life. Jane Smiley

Life Thought Rest My Life Mysteries Write Might

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species. Jane Smiley

Ride Will Degree Drive Other Our Project Ways Easy Silent Some Admit Horses Allow Perhaps Ideas Make Greater Readily Train Than Any Them Us Reserved Species Symbolic

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand. Jane Smiley

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. Jane Smiley

Life Death Best You Doctors Remind Also Condition Up Patch Happen Midst Used Injury Things Things Happen

Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead. Jane Smiley

News Feeling Half Spent Would Would-Be Minutes Russians Knew Mortality Missile Hour Most Dead Around Arrive Were Lot Up Blown Wondering Childhood Being Stand

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. Jane Smiley

War Cruelty Think Cold Cold War Unnecessary Exceptional Piece

Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later. Jane Smiley

With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves. Jane Smiley

Best You Yourself Other Way Some Horse Horses Comfort Around Go Been Rodeo Familiarity Familiarity Breeds Behave Move While Racetrack Themselves Breeds Show Activity Ever Thing Watch

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