The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor. - Dana Spiotta
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
- Dana Spiotta
The writer has to be brave, I think. - Dana Spiotta
The writer has to be brave, I think.
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are n… - Dana Spiotta
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are n…
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it. - Dana Spiotta
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete. - Dana Spiotta
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something cruci… - Dana Spiotta
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something cruci…
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a … - Dana Spiotta
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a …
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life. - Dana Spiotta
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them. - Dana Spiotta
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.
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