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.
Dani ShapiroThe Internet and all its lures are much, much harder than anything I've ever encountered. If you're writing on a computer, the very instrument you're writing on is already tainted by the world out there in all its permutations.
Dani ShapiroSuccess is so fleeting, even if you get a good book deal or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: What about the next one?
Dani ShapiroI don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.
Dani ShapiroWe're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.
Dani ShapiroWhen 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.
Dani Shapiro