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Novel Quotes by Dana Spiotta
- 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…
- Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the…
- It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
- A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is…
- 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…
- 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 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…
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