Able Quote by Dani Shapiro

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware…

— Gene Weingarten

Sometimes when I'm traveling, I feel a little bit dislocated, especially the transitions you make when you're traveling - you go to a different…

— Julia Kent

I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so…

— Dan Hill

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed…

— Ned Vizzini

That's the thing about driving: You're alone but you're everywhere. You're standing still but moving really fast. It's just like perspectives constantly changing.

— Galcher Lustwerk

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the…

— Glen Hansard

The first time I landed in New York and got a cab to my hotel, I was completely struck by it: a feeling of…

— America Ferrera

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always…

— Kathy Mattea

I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to…

— Leila Aboulela

I suppose I've got a restlessness about me which is only alleviated by travel and I like being on the road.

— Rick Stein

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

— Isaac Watts