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Writing Quotes by Dana Spiotta
- I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
- I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
- It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
- 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 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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