"If I waited to be in the mood……" — Dani Shapiro

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely… - Dani Shapiro

"If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it."

— Dani Shapiro

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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