Dani Shapiro Quotes

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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live – the way you live – then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

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My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

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I’m an urban person who loves living in the country.

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Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there’s so much freedom in getting to know what’s under there, the bedrock.

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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal – fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion – that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

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There’s a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

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Sometimes when I’m at my desk, I’ll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven‘t moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.

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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 I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

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It’s essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity – as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it’s certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page – but rather, will assume that she‘s getting it right without the struggle.

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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.

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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 occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking – the result of a car crash – and I never got to say goodbye.

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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We’re storing it away. Tamping it down.

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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

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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 years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

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