Writing Quotes by Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta

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

Laundry

Wells

Writing

Dana Spiotta

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I’m interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it’s what I’m interested in, and it’s how I believe human behavior is legible.

Believe

Character

Writing

Dana Spiotta

I think it’s harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, ‘I’m just going to devote my life to making art,’ or ‘I’m going to devote my life to writing novels.’ You end up with no resources.

Art

Thinking

Writing

Dana Spiotta

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

Morning

Thinking

Writing

Dana Spiotta

I think there’s a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.

Character

Emotional

Writing

Dana Spiotta

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

Strange

Want

Writing

Dana Spiotta

If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you’re imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.

Character

Real

Writing

Dana Spiotta

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

Long

Novel

Writing

Dana Spiotta

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

Risk

Writing

Years

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Writing Quotes by Dana Spiotta

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

I do want to write about social/cultural/historical context. I’m interested in relationships, in character, but within a specific social context. Which is kind of a political thing, I admit that. But it’s what I’m interested in, and it’s how I believe human behavior is legible.

I think it’s harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, ‘I’m just going to devote my life to making art,’ or ‘I’m going to devote my life to writing novels.’ You end up with no resources.

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life.

I think there’s a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

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

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

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