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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Across Down Feeling Find Notebook Out Page Scribbling Sit Start Words

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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Duck Hand Keep Minds Moment Our Remove Slight Tendency Us Wander

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Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Bedrock Beneath Endless Freedom Getting Heads Hides Know Loop Much Our Pain Random Run Thoughts Through

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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Achieve Around Believe Elusive Fitting Getting Goal Happy Hidden Insecurity Jeans Kitchen Make Only Our Pain Pair Promotion Racing Secretly Skinny Some Us Will

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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: About Blame Creative Hurt Memoir Write You

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My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Beach Covered Desk Favorite Pieces Rose Stones Wishing

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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

Topics: Car Crash Dad Death Died Goodbye Got His Never Result Say Shocking Sudden

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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Around Empty Few Go Image Mind Monkey More Rarely Remain Seconds Than Thought Which

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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Careers Disappointment Equanimity Every Lot Maintain Matter Necessary Need Order Our Rejection Whatever Where Withstand Writer

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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Away Clues Details Even Everything Glass Interpret Later Like May Noses Notice Our Outsiders Pressed Seem Store Us Useful Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1962

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