Dani Shapiro Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runners get in the mood to run? Do teachers wake up with the urge to lecture? I don't know, but I doubt it. My guess is that it's the very act that is generative. The doing of the thing that makes possible the desire for it.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Teacher, Writing

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.49, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Haunting, Theme

• When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I open my door here, I'm not opening into the possibility that I'm going to run into somebody or be faced with a hundred choices about what I'm going to do, or which cafe I'm going to go to, or which way to distract myself.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Doors, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

• In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Home, Journey

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