Dana Spiotta Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.”

“Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.”

“All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.”