Jane Smiley
Born 1949
From Los Angeles, California, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes fiction and nonfiction
Quotes
“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”
A Thousand Acres “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.”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel “The novel integrates several forms of human intelligence — verbal intelligence (for the style), psychological intelligence (for the characters), logical intelligence (for the plot), spatial intelligence (for the symbolic and metaphorical content as well as the setting), and even musical intelligence (for pacing and rhythm).”
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Chapter 3 “Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse.”
A Year at the Races, Chapter 3 “There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.”
The Age of Grief
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Jane Smiley in order
Books by Jane Smiley in the order they were published, from At Paradise Gate (1981) to Perestroika in Paris (2020).
- 1At Paradise Gate
At Paradise Gate1981 - 2Duplicate Keys
Duplicate Keys1984 - 3The Age of Grief
The Age of Grief1987 - 4The Greenlanders
The Greenlanders1988 - 5Ordinary Love and Good Will
Ordinary Love and Good Will1989 - 6A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres1991 - 7The True Subject
The True Subject1993 - 8Moo
Moo1995 - 9The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton1998 - 10Horse Heaven
Horse Heaven2000 - 11The Sagas of Icelanders
The Sagas of Icelanders2001 - 12A Year at the Races
A Year at the Races2004 - 13Sagas of the IcelandersSagas of the Icelanders2005
- 1413 Ways of Looking at the Novel
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel2006 - 15Ten Days in the Hills
Ten Days in the Hills2007 - 16A Good Horse
A Good Horse2010 - 17Private Life
Private Life2010 - 18The Man Who Invented the Computer
The Man Who Invented the Computer2010 - 19True Blue
True Blue2011 - 20Mystery Horse
Mystery Horse2012 - 21Some Luck
Some Luck2014 - 22Golden Age
Golden Age2015 - 23Twenty Yawns
Twenty Yawns2016 - 24Perestroika in Paris
Perestroika in Paris2020