Monday, 22 March 2021

Quotes 56: Jane Smiley

"I'm a working person. I always tell students that if you sit around and wait to be inspired, you'll never get anywhere." 

–– Jane Smiley (b. 1949), American novelist 

Source: Sarah Hampson. The Hampson Interview: "Jane Smiley, A pragmatist of the page." The Globe and Mail, Saturday May 17, 2003, p. R9. 

via Book of Commonplace 2003-2004, p. 9.

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