In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.
Dani ShapiroWriting has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Dani ShapiroConfidence 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.
Dani ShapiroLet me tell you something about hypochondria: It's a pernicious, undermining little demon. It won't kill you, but it will sap the color from your life so that in the loveliest moments, the moments of grace, you are hit with that whisper in your ear that takes it all away. I'm sick, I'm dying - I just don't know it yet.
Dani Shapiro