Dana Spiotta Trying Quotations

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

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.

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.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.