Dani Shapiro Moving Quotations

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

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

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.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.