Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk... →
Samuel Smiles
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of... →
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as... →
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the... →
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and... →
Jane Smiley
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors... →
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 thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and... →
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about... →