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Writer Quotes by Dani Shapiro
- 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…
- If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live…
- How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
- I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of…
- Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it…
- 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 it.…
- I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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