Jane Smiley Quotes

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1949

Topics

SmilingDarkTrainWindowsSometimes

I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Jim Rash

ParentsFeelBackTelevisionKid

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

Jerry Lewis

EgoComedyNothing

Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.

Robert Glasper

PeopleJazzHip-HopMoreAudience

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Michael Apted

ChangeTechnologyBeautifulBetter

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

John Wooden

MistakesYouDoneMoreQuickHurry

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Tony Kushner

WorkFindPossibleArtistsFurthest

I haven't got one or two people that I aspired to be like.

Ruth Wilson

PeopleTwo PeopleTwoGotLike

Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.

Roland Martin

LifeWorkYouPlaceWhereYour

Iran is not interested in a war. Iran is capable of defending itself and teaching a very harsh lesson to anybody who commits aggression against Iran, but we're not interested.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

WarLessonCapableAggressionWho

I am dying, but the state remains.

Louis XIV

I AmDyingStateRemainsAm

Some people win 10, 15, and don't fight for the belt.

Jose Aldo

FightPeopleWinSome PeopleBelt

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.

Denis Leary

FunnyMeLaughAwardDownThings

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