Jane Smiley Quotes
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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The fans treated me royally.
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If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
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When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I had this mentality that I had to go out to everyone's show so everyone at the end of the week would come to mine - that I had to go out and rub elbows, find exposure. A small part of that is true. But if something is good, people will notice when you put it out.
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Remember, Team, surrender the me for the we.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
