Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being.… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
![“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]” quote by Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f2b/dani-shapiro-2273_adulthood_i-had-spent-my-childhood-and-the-better_1377892.jpg)
