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Dana Spiotta Quotes

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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.

Experience School High School Acting

My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

Life Creative People Chef Husband

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

Family Me Why Mean Aunt Buy

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

Work Time Money Long You Long Time

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

Great I Am Writing Laundry Up Going

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

Live Technology Today Language Try

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

Talent Luck Too Much Shy Audience

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

Challenge World Creating Only Like

Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

Memory Without Dysfunctional Writer

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.

Power Great City Name You Wall

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.

Live Roads Feel Wall Street Lead

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