Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.” — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“From Carl Jung: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her a few… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's nothing confessional about crafting and shaping a story out of a lived life. In fact, it's quite the opposite - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young.… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals -… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Years vanish. Months collapse. Time is like a tall building made of playing cards. It seems orderly until a strong gust of… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“It wasn't getting easier because it isn't supposed to get easier. Midlife was a bitch, and my educated guess was that the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like to put down… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“This is in the natural order of things--the time of life we've now entered. The afternoon , as Jung called it. Thoroughly… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“When writers who are just starting out ask me when it gets easier, my answer is never. It never gets easier. I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done.… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
I never troll for material. It simply presents itself, and is always unmistakable. This is why I want to roll my eyes when people… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports me. The… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
“Oh, child! Somewhere inside you, your future has already unfurled like one of those coiled-up party streamers, once shiny, shaken loose, floating gracefully for… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share
![“I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one another. We were done. It was a fact of my life--intractable and sad--that our relationship had been a failure. Still, with her prognosis came one last chance to be her daughter. [p. 163]” quote by Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/596/dani-shapiro-2273_last-chance_i-had-no-illusions-that-now-in-some-fina_1656183.png)
