“When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.” WritingWellsLongIdeasPracticeGrowing UpGrowingLong TimeNo IdeaJournalWriting Life Author:Dani Shapiro
“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.” WantWritingLittlesPracticeOppositesTinyPassagesJournal Author:Dani Shapiro
“When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.” KindHardFeltPracticeYogaRevelationsHeritageGet OverJudaismMeditatingUntrue Author:Dani Shapiro
“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.” WellsHoursPracticeFiveMeditationMinutesTwentiesEach DayFive MinutesShowing UpCentering Author:Dani Shapiro
“Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.” KnowsWritingPracticeSittingSitting Down Author:Dani Shapiro
“Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.” ThinkingFeelsMeanPersonsReligiousPracticeDevotionMemoirRelateTitlesHave FaithFidelity Author:Dani Shapiro
