Dani Shapiro Quotes

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• I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty,…
• I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen…
• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle…
• It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.
• Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.
• Courage is more important than confidence
• You can start your day over anytime.
• Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
• Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the…
• In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was…
• We are tyrannized by our options.
• There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you…
• Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
• I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
• In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.
• If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life.
• If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live…
• We don't choose what's going to wake us up.
• All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.
• The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself.…

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