Dani Shapiro Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.”

“Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.”

“There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.”

“Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.”

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

“How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'”

“I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.”

“I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.”

“I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.”

“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.”