Ten of My Favourite Dana Spiotta Quotes
Dana Spiotta, a writer whom I am guessing you love? Here are our 10 best Dana Spiotta quotes for you to enjoy. At Australia Unwrapped we believe every book has at least one quotable line, and our mission is to find them all. Here you will find Dana Spiotta’s top 10 popular and famous quotes. Like every good writer Dana Spiotta made a number of memorable quotes, here are some of our favourites:
Popular Quotes
“Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.”
― Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
“I’m turning fifty, and it is just now dawning on me that I have limited time,” Nash said. “No kidding. I always felt my life was circumscribed by the finite terms, you know? There is a whole world of things I missed out on and will never experience. Whatever I have done, there is an endless amount I have not done. Do you know what that tells me?”
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“It tells me it is not meant to be this all-encompassing journey. It is not meant to be catholic or encyclopedic. By now I have carved some grooves in this life. A few. What I need to do is hunker down and make those grooves deep and indelible.”
― Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
“That is the thing about films. They don’t change. You change. The immutability of the film (or a book or a painting or a piece of music) is something to measure yourself against. That is one of the things a great work of art does. It stays there waiting for you to come back to it, and it shows you who you are now, each time a little different.”
― Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others
“Incidentally, if you have never stalked someone close to you, I highly recommend it. Check out how it tranforms them. How other they become, and how infinitely necessary and justified the stalking becomes when you realize how little you know about them, how mysterious every aspect of them seems with an at a distance but close examiniation.”
― Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
“Why was Will able to buy this cherished object, this marker of some long-past connection between two people, in an antiques store? At some point there had to be an ending, a death or a breakup, and it got tossed in a box to be given away or sold.”
― Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others
“I’m thinking about past events. I’m interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.”
― Dana Spiotta
“The issue isn’t, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don’t matter. Ability doesn’t matter. Need is the only thing that matters.”
― Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”
― Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
“He pursued a lifetime of abuse that could only come from a warped relationship with the future.”
― Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
“Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother’s voice?”
― Dana Spiotta
10 Famous Quotes by Author Dana Spiotta
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One Final Bonus – Dana Spiotta Quote
“I wondered if my life was going to be one immersion after another, a great march of shallow, unpopular popular culture infatuations that don’t really last and don’t really mean anything. Sometimes I even think maybe my deepest obsessions are just random manifestations of my loneliness or isolation. Maybe I infuse ordinary experience with a kind of sacred aura to mitigate the spiritual vapidity of my life….no, it is beautiful to be enraptured. To be enthralled by something, anything. And it isn’t random. It speaks to you for a reason. If you wanted to, you could look at it that way, and you might find you aren’t wasting your life. You are discovering things about yourself and the world, even if it is just what you find beautiful, right now, this second.”
― Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
