I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.
Jane SmileyI had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.
Jane SmileyI wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
Jane SmileyAs soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
Jane Smiley