“Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!” WayPersonsStillsBookFilmStrangeHusbandStrangerMy HusbandScreenwritersStay With Me Author:Dani Shapiro
“When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.” WayRunningChoicesCitiesDoorsPossibilityHundredNoiseOpeningCafes Author:Dani Shapiro
“It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.” WorldWayProcessMy OwnEasierBlameCastsI've LearnedUrban Author:Dani Shapiro
“I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.” WayTryingMindShowsCoursesStudentsInternetDegreesMirrorsWho You AreHopsShow Me Author:Dani Shapiro
“I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.” ThinkingWayCommunitySolitude Author:Dani Shapiro
“I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.” WayModernNeededQuietNormalDown AndSlow DownModern Life Author:Dani Shapiro
“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.” WayFeelsWritingSelfEnoughDreamSeeingPerspectiveProtectTwentiesDistanceYounger Self Author:Dani Shapiro
“Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.” WayHandsMemoriesTeachingCreatingToolsBridgesReachingReach OutConnectingEngraved Author:Dani Shapiro
“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]” WayTryingPersonsMotherDifficultChildhoodRageTemperAdulthoodFlareSpitefulScorching Author:Dani Shapiro
“If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art” IfsThinkingWayTryingKindArtArtistFundamentalsInstrumentsWhere You Live Author:Dani Shapiro
“Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.” WayWritingHas BeensExistenceWindowWideMy WayMagnificentChaoticInterpreting Book:Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.” WayWritingInspireMood Author:Dani Shapiro
