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
-
I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
-
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.
-
I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
-
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
-
The seed buried in the ground produces fruit, and in turn this is planted. Thus the harvest is multiplied. So the death of Christ on the cross of Calvary will bear fruit unto eternal life. The contemplation of this sacrifice will be the glory of those who, as the fruit of it, will live through the eternal ages.
-
I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.
-
A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
-
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive another of his life, or enslave him, or rob him, or prevent him from pursuing his own goals, or compel him to act against his own rational judgment.
-
We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.
-
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
