Quotes by Dani Shapiro

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“But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of wha...”
— Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion
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“Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write”
— Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
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“The writers life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.”
— Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
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“My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.”
— Dani Shapiro
Car Goodbye Say

“In order to write a memoir, I’ve sat still inside the swirling vortex of my own complicated history like a piece of old driftwood, battered by the sea. I’ve waited—sometimes patiently, sometimes in...”
— Dani Shapiro
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“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.”
— Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
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