A biography for Dana Stabenowhasn’t been written yet.
“I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.”
“To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.”
“I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.”
“My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.”
“I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.”
“The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.”
“At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.”
“Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.”