"Your memories from your early childhood seem to……" — Dana Spiotta
"Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete."
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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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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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That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would…
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More Childhood Quotes
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
— Lance Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't…
— Margaret Atwood
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It…
— Ann Bancroft
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
— Charles Baudelaire
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was…
— Chester Bennington
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