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 Read Quote
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much. Dana Spiotta Read Quote
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. Dana Spiotta Read Quote
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. Dana Spiotta Read Quote
I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that’s why they call me the ‘mean’ aunt. Dana Spiotta Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dana Spiotta Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There’s lots of things that can’t make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don’t get published – is it still worthwhile? Aren’t we glad people are still doing it? Dana Spiotta Read Quote
