Quotes by Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

Portraits

Trying

Way

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

People

Prejudice

Trying

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

Artist

Luck

Shy

I always think the novelist should go to the culture’s dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

Dark

Novelists

Thinking

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

Laundry

Wells

Writing

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I’m interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it’s what I’m interested in, and it’s how I believe human behavior is legible.

Believe

Character

Writing

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

Mistake

Realization

Realizing

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 did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Impact

Reading

Stories

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

Challenges

Creating

World

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that’s why they call me the ‘mean’ aunt.

Book

Kids

Mean

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Afternoon

Art

Artist

Be Brave

Believe

Book

Brain

Brave

Challenges

Chance

Character

Choices

Conflict

Creating

Culture

Dark

Ease

Emotional

Giving Up

Ideas

Impact

Inspiration

Inspirational

Intellectual

Issues

Kids

Laundry

Lazy

Long

Luck

Mean

Meaningful

Mistake

Morning

Moving

Names

Novel

Novelists

Pay The Price

People

Portraits

Prejudice

Profound

Reading

Real

Realization

Realizing

Risk

Self

Shy

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Quotes by Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

I always think the novelist should go to the culture’s dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I’m interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it’s what I’m interested in, and it’s how I believe human behavior is legible.

I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.

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 did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that’s why they call me the ‘mean’ aunt.

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