Dana Spiotta Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.
My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.
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.
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.
Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.
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.
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.
I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.
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.
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.
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.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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.