Reads tagged with “Dani Shapiro”
A Velocity of Being: Illustrated Letters to Children about Why We Read by 121 of the Most Inspiring Humans in Our World
A labor of love 8 years in the making, featuring contributions by Jane Goodall, Yo-Yo Ma, Jacqueline Woodson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mary Oliver, Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, Rebecca Solnit, Elizabeth Gilbert, Shonda Rhimes, Richard Branson, Marina Abramović, Judy Blume, and other remarkable humans living inspired and inspiring lives.
Why We Write About Ourselves: Some of Today’s Most Celebrated Writers on the Art of Telling Personal Stories That Unravel Universal Truth
“Making art is all about humans and our psychology: who we are, how we behave, what we do with the hand we’ve been dealt. It’s closer to your own bone when it’s a memoir, but the bone is still the bone.”
An Animating Presence: Dani Shapiro on the Quest for a Connected Consciousness
The art of holding up one’s own end of the dialogue.
Dani Shapiro on Vulnerability, the Creative Impulse, the Writing Life, and How to Live with Presence
“The job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it. To be birthed by it.”
Dani Shapiro on the Pleasures and Perils of Writing and the Creative Life
“It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.”
Hourglass: Dani Shapiro on Time, Memory, Marriage, and What Makes Us Who We Are
“Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels… There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present.”
Poet Jane Kenyon’s Advice on Writing: Some of the Wisest Words to Create and Live By
“Be a good steward of your gifts.”
A Decadent Decade of Design Matters: 10 Years of Intelligent and Inspiring Interviews with Creative Icons
Stimulating, ennobling, deeply human conversations with Maira Kalman, Seth Godin, Dani Shapiro, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Ware, Shepard Fairey, and more.
The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown
“The job—as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy—of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.”
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