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Dana Spiotta
American
Author
Great
Life
Me
My Life
People
You
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Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
Dana Spiotta
Service
Alone
Food
Great
You
Experience
Bad
Must
Restaurant
Something
Only
Through
Wrong
Invisible
Ideally
Although
Goes
Achieved
Notice
Include
I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
Dana Spiotta
Music
Me
Reading
Say
Impact
About
Learned
Arrange
Narrative
How
Did
Stories
Movies
Much
Novels
Things
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
Dana Spiotta
Life
Music
My Life
Would
Writer
Never
Had
Read
Became
Lot
Friends
Listen
Really
Reasons
Many
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Dana Spiotta
Me
Book
People
Looking
Think
Hunger
About
Concentration
Offer
Sustained
Engagement
Organized
Novel
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
Dana Spiotta
Experience
School
Try
Endeavor
Definitely
High
Bad
High School
Had
Terrible
Yes
Did
Artistic
Being
Acting
My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
Dana Spiotta
Life
Creative
People
Husband
My Life
Musician
Recordings
He
Feel
Also
Make
Chef
Makes
Surrounded
Very
So Many People
Cooks
Creative People
Many
Lucky
Basement
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
Dana Spiotta
Good
Must
Something
Crucial
Unsettling
Feel
Come
Authenticity
Formal
Stake
Should
Novel
Deeply
Coherence
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
Dana Spiotta
Today
Technology
Try
Language
Live
Our
About
Write
How
Bodies
Use
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
Dana Spiotta
Too Much
Luck
Too
Some
Costs
Talent
Well
Audience
Private
Getting
Artists
Them
Much
Requires
Shy
I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
Dana Spiotta
World
Challenge
Only
Like
Sentences
Creating
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