All Dani Shapiro Quotes
- I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty,… Anxiety
- 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… All
- 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… Adolescence
- 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. Able
- Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment. Any
- Courage is more important than confidence Confidence
- You can start your day over anytime. Anytime
- Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write Attempt
- 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… Allowing
- 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… All
- We are tyrannized by our options. Funny
- 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… Act
- Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. Daily
- I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. Act
- In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home. Closest
- If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life. Dismiss
- If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live… Any
- We don't choose what's going to wake us up. Choose
- All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies. All
- 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.… Ability
- It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and… Alert
- Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. Been
- I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. All
- If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. Blame
- How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' Answer