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.
Dani ShapiroI try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
Dani ShapiroThere's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the writer has to be able to transcend the life, to see it as if standing outside of it, in order to be able to make something of it. There's something enormously satisfying and gratifying about crafting something, taking all that chaos and giving it shape.
Dani ShapiroIn a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.
Dani Shapiro