What did Jane Smiley mean by: Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA Copy
+ The one thing … maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Smiley, Coming Out, Family, Tolerate, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ When people leave, they always seem to scoop themselves out of you. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Smiley, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Smiley, Ignorant, Past, Sin, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific. Feraz Zeid, July 28, 2023December 12, 2023, Jane Smiley, Emotion, Love, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community… Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Smiley, Community, Individuality, Progressive, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Smiley, Perfect, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Hungry ears are sharp ones. Feraz Zeid, October 17, 2023December 26, 2023, Jane Smiley, Ears, Hungry, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
+ Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Smiley, Ignorance, United States, 0 - Jane Smiley Novelist · USA
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Oh, my dear, my tragedy is that you don’t need to be loved as I know how to love. - Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Salon hostess · France
I love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. - Jennifer Echols Author
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination–it would turn into a masterpiece. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it. - Fred D'Aguiar Poet · Guyana
