Dani Shapiro Quotes

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

Dani Shapiro

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Freedom

• I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Know

• Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Done

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • College
  • Risk

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • Game
  • Green

• For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Book
  • Chance
  • Learn

• Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

  

  Megalyn Echikunwoke
  • Black

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

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moving