"The idea that you can live off the……" — Dana Spiotta
"The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher."
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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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