What did Jane Smiley mean by: Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. Jane Smiley Novelist · USA Copy
+ People with good intentions never give up! Author, November 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Smiley, Optimism, Persistence, Resilience, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
My great fear is not that I’ll run out of ideas. It’s that I’ll run out of time. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Smiley, Creativity, Fear, Time., 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. Author, July 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Jane Smiley, Aspiration, Disappointment, Failure, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community… Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Smiley, Collectivism, Progress, Society, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Smiley, Education, Growth, Nostalgia, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression ‘It’s always something. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Smiley, Chaos, Nature, Persistence, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Smiley, Conflict, Cruelty, History, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jane Smiley, Anticipation, Curiosity, Knowledge, 0 Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms. Frank Herbert Author · USA
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation. Frederick Sommer Photographer · USA
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of reason, or give up existence. Friedrich Engels Philosopher, social scientist, and political theorist · Germany
