"In my experience there is only one motivation and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it."
- Jane Smiley
"There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it."
- Jane Alexander
"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
- Janet Erskine Stuart
"People with good intentions never give up!"
"You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself."
- Jane Seymour
"Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities they will never come."
"Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
- Jane Harrison
"The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it."
- Jane Welsh Carlyle
"You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense."
- Jane Pauley
"If you scratch a great photograph you find two things: a painting and a photograph."
- Janet Malcolm