"It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward."

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Source : "Dani Shapiro: Stop Asking for Permission". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. September 27, 2013.

Dani Shapiro

#Moving Forward Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Writing Quotes

“In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.”
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015
“I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure”
“Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.”
“You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.”
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”
“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”

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