I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad,… — 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
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
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find… — 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
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
Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I lived in the city, I had learned to close my door against a lot of the noise, but when I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that… — 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
