Writing Quotes by Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons – they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Icons

Reminders

Writing

Jane Smiley

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn’t. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

Book

Editors

Writing

Jane Smiley

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

Book

Breathing

Writing

Jane Smiley

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Lucky

Progress

Writing

Jane Smiley

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

Desire

Novel

Writing

Jane Smiley

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 their autobiography. And in the end that’s why I find people interesting.

Interesting

People

Writing

Jane Smiley

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

Activity

Novel

Writing

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Activity

Age

Aging

America

Art

Assessment

Avid

Believe

Blind

Book

Breathing

Care

Categories

Character

Charity

Children

Closing Up

Coming Out

Community

Creating

Creativity

Crowds

Cusp

Decay

December

Degrees

Delight

Desire

Different

Doctors

Doe

Driving

Ears

Eccentric

Editors

Embarrassment

Essence

Events

Example

Experts

Eye

Fall

Family

Farmers

Farming

Fascination

Fashion

Favors

Fear Of Love

Fields

Firsts

Food

Friendship

Generosity

Giving

Goal

Groups

Happy Birthday

Horse

House

Hungry

Icons

Ideas

Individualism

Injury

Inspirational

Inspiring

Interesting

Introducing

Issues

Knows

Library

Life

Lucky

May

Memories

Men

Mind

Mother

Names

Naps

Novel

Novelists

Numbers

Pages

Parent

Peculiar

People

Perfect

Philosophical

Pieces

Playgrounds

Poetry

Progress

Progressive

Racing

Real

Reminders

Republican

Romance

Rough Drafts

Running

San Francisco

Spiritual

Stories

Summer

Survival

Talking

Thinking

Three

Together

Tolerate

Too Much

Toxic

Toxins

Two

Two Different Things

United States

Vets

Views

Waiting

Wake Up

Want

War

Watches

Winning

Winter

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Jane Smiley

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons – they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn’t. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

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 their autobiography. And in the end that’s why I find people interesting.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

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