“I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.” ThinkingWayCultureDangerPopsConstructsExclusivePop Culture Author:Dana Spiotta
“For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.” ThinkingWayWritingTryingSelfFeelingsMovingLanguageProcessNovelStructureBusyCome UpSentencesEngagingRevisionCorrelationNew Places Author:Dana Spiotta
“You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much better than going at it all frontally. But you can't conjure it in an intellectual way; it has to come out of another engagement, a more intuitive engagement. Revision is where the intellectual, analytical work happens. At least for me.” WayTryingHappensLanguageIntellectualConnectionsProfoundDeeperEngagementSubconsciousIntuitiveRevision Author: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.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingIdeasSometimesCharacterNovelMovementEmotionalDrivenDivisionDescribingEmotional Things Author:Dana Spiotta
“Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.” WayTryingPersonsFilmmakerAccuratePortraitsDocumentaries Author:Dana Spiotta
“In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.” WayWritingKindOrderNovelBreathing Author:Dana Spiotta
