it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from thei… - Jane Smiley
I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from thei…
- Jane Smiley
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,… - Jane Smiley
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,…
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, befo… - Jane Smiley
Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, befo…
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and … - Jane Smiley
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and …
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 g… - Jane Smiley
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 g…
Respect and fear are two different things. - Jane Smiley
Respect and fear are two different things.
Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world. - Jane Smiley
Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader. - Jane Smiley
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn. - Jane Smiley
I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.
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