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Dani Shapiro

How do we live the writer’s life? There’s only one simple answer: ‘we write.’

– Dani Shapiro

Dani Shapiro

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.

– Dani Shapiro

Dani Shapiro

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.

– Dani Shapiro

Dani Shapiro

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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Dani Shapiro

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

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Dani Shapiro

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

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Dani Shapiro

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.

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Dani Shapiro

Strange – I’m not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don’t stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

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Dani Shapiro

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

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Dani Shapiro

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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Dani Shapiro

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

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Dani Shapiro

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.

– Dani Shapiro

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