“I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.” FeelsHandsMovingRoomsPagesConnectedLike Me Author:Dani Shapiro
“Writing 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 page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.” WritingWellsStillsDreamPathWillingWalkingShapesPagesSittingPressesPatientWideResistanceBreathingAllowingPencilsSlow DownLunaticBruisesSlowingWriting WellSitting Still Author:Dani Shapiro
“With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.” WritingTwoAgePastMovingMemoriesResultsAliveChildhoodMiddleMetsPagesProfoundMemoirClarityUpliftingLayersAdulthoodAdolescenceOur PastRemindersMiddle AgesPsychologistHeartbreaking Author:Dani Shapiro
“When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I’m feeling.” FeelingsPagesNotebook Author:Dani Shapiro
“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.” LiteratureStruggleCreatingPagesAssumingOverrated Author:Dani Shapiro