Quotes by : Dani Shapiro

To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at....

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

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

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....

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

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....