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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Iris Smyles is an American writer. Her debut novel Iris Has Free Time (2013) was published by Soft Skull Press and Dating Tips for the Unemployed (2016), an informal companion novel, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Smyles has also contributed stories and essays to The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vogue, Paris Review Daily, Bomb, Guernica Magazine, New York Press, McSweeney's Internet Tendecy and Best American Travel Writing 2015. She also wrote columns for Splice Today and The East Hampton Star.

Born: 1978

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I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

Iris Smyles

There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the right ones. Most people don't go through life without making mistakes, but sometimes you meet someone who seems to hit all the marks. But they never seem to know very much. They have success and luck but no real wisdom.

Iris Smyles

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.

Iris Smyles

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

Iris Smyles

It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.

Iris Smyles

As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.

Iris Smyles

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

Iris Smyles

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