There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
Dani ShapiroWe can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
Dani ShapiroYou have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.
Dani ShapiroThe writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.
Dani Shapiro