Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro
Daneile Joyce "Dani" Shapiro is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoirs Slow Motion and Devotion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and ELLE...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 April 1962
CountryUnited States of America
art thinking trying
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art
writing ongoing needs
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
writing simple answers
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
fighting embrace things-to-do
The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.
writing way window
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
dream thinking trying
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
jobs artist joy
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
expected home investment jewish kids marry orthodox raise raised suburbs
I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.
fluent orthodox spoke thirteen until
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
fallen legs moved
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
knew writer
I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
car crash dad death died result shocking sudden
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.
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
believe world given
You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.