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....

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

Don't think too much. There'll be time to think later. Analysis won't help. You're chiseling now. You're....

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone....

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

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

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

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

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She....

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