All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.
Dani ShapiroI started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
Dani ShapiroI'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.
Dani ShapiroI do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.
Dani ShapiroI had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]
Dani Shapiro