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.
Dana SpiottaI don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.
Dana SpiottaYou are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.
Dana Spiotta