Quotes by Dani Shapiro

Dani Shapiro

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. Where she’s stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it, even after all the meat seems to be gone. When a student of mine says (okay, whines) that she’s impatient, or tired, or the worst: isn’t it good enough? this may be harsh, but she loses just a little bit of my respect. Because there is no room for impatience, or exhaustion, or self-satisfaction, or laziness. All of these really mean, simply, that the inner censor has won the day.

Dog

Mean

Tired

As a fiction writer, that’s been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Blow

Doors

Past

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

Imagine

Jobs

Witness

At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice – simply showing up for it – is centering.

Meditation

Practice

Showing Up

Courage is more important than confidence

Important

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

Moments

Things Change

Trying

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Needs

Ongoing

Writing

How do we live the writer’s life? There’s only one simple answer: ‘we write.’

Answers

Simple

Writing

I did want to feel like life’s all of one piece.

One Piece

Pieces

Want

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

Opposites

Practice

Writing

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Answers

Art

Artist

Baths

Believe

Bigger

Blow

Book

Breathing

Car

Careers

Childhood

Children

Cities

Community

Complicated

Country

Creative

Deep Inside

Desire

Disappointment

Divine

Dog

Doors

Dream

Ducks

Embrace

Empathy

Envy

Essentials

Eye

Father

Feelings

Fighting

Fleeting

Found

Generations

Giving

Glasses

Growing Up

Hands

Haunting

Hearing

Heart

Helpful

Hungry

Hurt

Husband

Imagine

Important

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Quotes by Dani Shapiro

Dani Shapiro

As a fiction writer, that’s been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice – simply showing up for it – is centering.

Courage is more important than confidence

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

How do we live the writer’s life? There’s only one simple answer: ‘we write.’

I did want to feel like life’s all of one piece.

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

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