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 →
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is... →
I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or... →
The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is... →
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was... →
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.
Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.