Dani ShapiroAll there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.375Time
Dani ShapiroI used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.331Time
Dani ShapiroIn a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.377Death
Dani ShapiroWith tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, mi… ▶334LifeLovePhilosophy
Dani ShapiroIf you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying… ▶323Thought
Dani ShapiroThe writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be ge… ▶357LifeTime
Dani ShapiroI try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it. ✨ Dani Shapiro (20… ▶3710Life
Dani ShapiroCourage is more important than confidence3510Truth
Dani ShapiroEverything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write ✨ Dani Shapiro (2013). Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creativ… ▶283Life
Dani ShapiroWriting well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the … ▶295Reading
Dani ShapiroWriting has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. ✨ Dani Shapiro (2013). Still Writing: Th… ▶253Life
Dani ShapiroIt is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive. ✨ Dani Sha… ▶244LifeThought
Dani ShapiroIt is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters. ✨ A Memoir Is Not a Status Upda… ▶266Politics
Dani ShapiroI 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 when we're waiting for the phone to ring, or t… ▶2810ReadingTime
Dani ShapiroWe don't choose what's going to wake us up.192Humor
Dani ShapiroThere’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 might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful… ▶225HumanityLife
Dani ShapiroIf I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life. ✨ Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creativ… ▶206LifeReading
Dani ShapiroWe are tyrannized by our options. ✨ Dani Shapiro (2013). Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.162Life
Dani ShapiroRecognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment. ✨ Dani Shapiro: 'Recognize The Possibility Of The Divine In Any Given Moment’. www.huffingtonpost.com. Oct… ▶196Time
Dani ShapiroEverything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.141Life
Dani ShapiroA 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. Where she's stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it… ▶165TimeTruth
Dani ShapiroIn the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known … ▶176LoveSadness
Dani ShapiroThis sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]156Sadness
Dani ShapiroYou can start your day over anytime.168Time
Dani ShapiroI had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, wit… ▶137Sadness
