Jane Smiley Quotes

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.

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• I'm a good driver.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Good
  • Driver

• A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Story
  • Now

• I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Family
  • Love
  • Perfect

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• I feel like I've got a pretty good presence online through Instagram and Facebook. I just keep it simple.

  

  Flume
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Simple

• I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Relationship

• I never thought I was a very good manager.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Manager

• The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Mind
  • Political
  • Unique

• I love hot yoga. I go to a sculpt class with weights. That's really good for the core and it's obviously super hot. I love cardio bar. I'm not a big gym fan, so I like to go to classes.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Good
  • Like
  • Classes

• Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Organization

• Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • True
  • Man

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Comic

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • You
  • Problem

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• The problem with being married to an athlete who is, like, 19 feet tall and can just eat, like, 17 burgers at 11 o'clock at night is, you're like, 'I'll have just three of those burgers,' and you think you're being good because he had 19 and you had three!

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Night
  • Problem

• I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life
  • Good

• If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

  

  Jena Malone
  • World
  • Good

• I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• 'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Good
  • Book
  • Perfect