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Dana Spiotta quotes: We identify ourselves by what moves us.

We identify ourselves by what moves us.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta quotes: Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

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

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

Dana Spiotta quotes: You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

Dana Spiotta quotes: Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

Dana Spiotta quotes: Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

Dana Spiotta quotes: The writer has to be brave, I think.

The writer has to be brave, I think.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

Dana Spiotta quotes: My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.

Dana Spiotta quotes: Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

Dana Spiotta quotes: He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future.

He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.

Dana Spiotta quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

Dana Spiotta quotes: Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

Dana Spiotta quotes: All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

Dana Spiotta quotes: 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.

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 quotes: My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

Dana Spiotta quotes: 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

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 quotes: Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Dana Spiotta quotes: And that's how a life changesit could go either way, and then it just goes one way.

And that's how a life changes
it could go either way, and then it just goes one way.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.

Dana Spiotta quotes: I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

Dana Spiotta quotes: It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.