It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“How do you suppose time works? A slippery succession of long hours adding up to ever-shorter days and years that disappear like… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals -… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Years vanish. Months collapse. Time is like a tall building made of playing cards. It seems orderly until a strong gust of… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“And these years later, when I think of that essay, what I remember most is not the moment I saw my work… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I have organized the inner crowd. For a brief, breathtaking moment, I feel completely whole. I understand that I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, the darkness was too much. It had been quite some time since I had woken up in… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I have organized the inner crowd. For a brief, breathtaking moment, I feel completely whole. I understand that I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Oh, child! Somewhere inside you, your future has already unfurled like one of those coiled-up party streamers, once shiny, shaken loose, floating… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your hands over the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“This is in the natural order of things--the time of life we've now entered. The afternoon , as Jung called it. Thoroughly… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports me. The… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
“Oh, child! Somewhere inside you, your future has already unfurled like one of those coiled-up party streamers, once shiny, shaken loose, floating gracefully for… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
