Dana Spiotta Quotes
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
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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.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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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.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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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.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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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.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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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.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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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.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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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.
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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.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
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I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
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It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
