All Dani Shapiro Quotes
- I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even… Afraid
- 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 it.… All
- 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,… Adulthood
- This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew… Always Knew
- I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible. Knew
- My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got… Car
- I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of… Bring
- I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her… Brooklyn
- I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning… Days
- The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which… Empty
- With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again. All
- When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. Convince
- We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting… Achieve
- One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen… Fluent
- I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the… Country