Jane Smiley

Naissance 1949

Originaire de Los Angeles, California, United States · Nationalité : United States · Écrit de la fiction et des essais

Citations

“The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.”
A Thousand AcresEn anglais
“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 NovelEn anglais
“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 3En anglais
“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 3En anglais
“There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.”
The Age of GriefEn anglais

Les livres de Jane Smiley dans l'ordre de parution, de At Paradise Gate (1981) à Perestroika in Paris (2020).