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Dani Shapiro Inspirational Quotes (53)

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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
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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.
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I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.
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Courage is more important than confidence
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If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.
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When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
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I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
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Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
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I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people interrupt themselves in the middle of some story they're telling me to say, You know you can't write about this.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.
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We don't choose what's going to wake us up.
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Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories
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I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi. What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
Daniel B. Shapiro
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt it has to be creative.
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I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.
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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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