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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

~Dana Spiotta

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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

~Dana Spiotta

Topics: Authenticity Coherence Come Crucial Deeply Feel Formal Good Must Novel Should Something Stake Unsettling

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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.

~Dana Spiotta

Topics: Art Artist Big Consequences Devote End Ever Going Harder Just Life Making Middle-Aged My Life Novels Pay Person Resources Saying Than Think Up Writing You I Think

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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

~Dana Spiotta

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People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

~Dana Spiotta

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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

~Dana Spiotta

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There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?

~Dana Spiotta

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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

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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 waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

~Dana Spiotta

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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.

~Dana Spiotta

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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