"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."

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Source : "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

Dana Spiotta

#Reading Quotes #Impact Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.”
“You just can't take the doctor out of you.”
“He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.”
“I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.”
“People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life, and I don't have one friend who is an actor!”

Source : "Teen Talks to: Sara Paxton". Interview with Andrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 5, 2007.
“A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.”
“The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.”
“Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.”

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