"A good novel should be deeply unsettling -……" — Dana Spiotta
"A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake."
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Dana Spiotta
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26 Quotes by Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta has 26 quotes on this site.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a…
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The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and…
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Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge…
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder…
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in…
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'…
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
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Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
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Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity…
— Deepak Chopra
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing -…
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While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to…
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I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its…
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Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course…
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Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
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