Quotes by Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

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To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred callin — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I m — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're passing your ha — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Write the words "The FIve Senses" on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You should have a bu — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would b — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have at — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down my f — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentl — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life