Dana Spiotta Quotes
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
-
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
-
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
-
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
-
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
-
I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
-
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
-
I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
-
I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
-
In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
-
I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
-
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
-
There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
-
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
-
I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
-
As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
-
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
-
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
-
I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
-
I have six brothers, so I definitely was aware of Marvel more than I was of princesses, but once you're cast in a Joss Whedon Marvel show, you go and become even more of a bigger fan. You do your homework.
-
Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.
-
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
