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Dana Spiotta Quotes: "Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up."

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "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."

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.




Dana Spiotta Quotes: "The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters."

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments."

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.




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

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



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

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



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities."

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.




Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life."

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students."

My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions."

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



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names."

I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "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."

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.




Dana Spiotta Quotes: "Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further."

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want."

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true."

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "The writer has to be brave, I think."

The writer has to be brave, I think.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it."

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels."

There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer."

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful."

Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life."

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money."

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies."

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt."

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



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences."

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



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

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



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up."

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



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "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."

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.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "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."

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.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "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 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.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them."

In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there."

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer."

The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.



Dana Spiotta Quotes: "I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets."

I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.