When I was growing up, I had no idea that I could possibly become a writer. I wrote endlessly in journals - a practice I maintained for a long time, well into the writing life I had no idea I could ever have.
Dani ShapiroPart of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
Dani ShapiroI started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
Dani ShapiroEverything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
Dani ShapiroI don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.
Dani ShapiroI remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.
Dani Shapiro