The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.
Dana SpiottaMost human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.
Dana SpiottaEven a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
Dana Spiotta