Jane Green Quotes
I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.
Quotes to Explore
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.
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I have a gorgeous office at home but tend not to write there because there are so many distractions.
