Quotes by : Dani Shapiro

Write the words "The FIve Senses" on an index card and tack it to a bulletin board above your desk. You....

Act as if you're a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and....

In order to write a memoir, I’ve sat still inside the swirling vortex of my own complicated history....

I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature,....

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....

Still writing?" I usually nod and smile, then quickly change the subject. But here is what I would like....

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

I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical.....

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