Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). Read full biography of Jane Smiley →
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his... →
A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even... →
Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.
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... →
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write... →
I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
My mom was paranoid about my safety.