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We identify ourselves by what moves us. — Dana Spiotta

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

I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media. — Jessica Pare

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

So many dreams wiped out in one split second — A.J. Linn

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

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

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

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

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

None knew thee but to love thee. — Fitz-Greene Halleck

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

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

Stand up, get out, and rip some f-ing waves girl! — Michael Mazza

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

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

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

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it. — Kevin Kwan

I'm not a rebel. I just like finding solutions by myself - Nashira Jaynes. — Deepika Kumaaraguru

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. — Markus Zusak

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

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

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind. — Julia Ward Howe

In this moment, she realizes what death really means. It means that she will never catch them. — Amy Zhang

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

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

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

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

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children. — Andrea McLean

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

Ideas do matter and do have consequences. — Nathaniel Branden

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is. — Ken Baumann

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

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

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis

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

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

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

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

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie

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