Dani Shapiro Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

• As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

  Dani Shapiro

  Blow, Past, Doors

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

• I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

• 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.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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