After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.
Dani ShapiroMichael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
Dani ShapiroI think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
Dani ShapiroMy journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
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