Quotes by : Dani Shapiro

Years vanish. Months collapse. Time is like a tall building made of playing cards. It seems orderly until....

I had no illusions that now, in some final and dramatic flash of revelation, we would understand one....

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never....

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from....

This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I....

I believe that there is something connecting us ... Something that was here before we got here and will....

I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She....

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even....

Gone was the reflexive need to see the worst in things. Before the tumors took her life, they gave her....