KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Dani Shapiro Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Dani Shapiro

Showing 11-20 of 42 Quotes by Dani Shapiro

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Assume Confidence Confident Creating Engage Exactly Get Getting Highly Literature Overly Overrated Page Rather Right She Struggle Who Will Without Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Circumstances Events History Life Out Possible Separate Themes Think Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Before Being Knew Possible Wanted Writer

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Imagine Job Only Our Witness Writers

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Am Asleep Body Desk Elsewhere Fallen Hours House Legs Moved Myself Realize Room Sometimes I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Against Back Bring Father He Head Hebrew His Household Jewish Me Next Observant Prayers Pressed Raised Shoulder Sitting Sounds Streaming Sunlight Surely Synagogue Were Windows I Was Raised

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Being Brooklyn City Felt Growing Growing Up Had Her Jersey Life Live Manhattan Meant Never New New Jersey Really Settled Someone Think Up Wanted Who Whole I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Any Art Artist Change Fundamental Instrument Kind Live Make Something Then Think Trying Very Way Where Writer You I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Country Living Loves Person Urban Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Certainly Devotion Faith Feel Fidelity Having Least Means Memoir Person Possible Practice Relates Religious Sense Think Title Without Word I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1962

Links

Find Dani Shapiro on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Jimmy Buffett Emily Dickinson Patrick Henry Elbert Hubbard Samuel Johnson Frank Ocean Rosa Parks Robin Williams

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - James Joyce

1905 - Ayn Rand

1745 - Hannah More

1754 - Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

1843 - Knute Nelson

1859 - Havelock Ellis

1864 - Margot Asquith

1874 - Ernest Shackleton

1875 - Fritz Kreisler

1882 - James Stephens

Birthdays on February 2nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Christmas Environmental Failure Mother's Day Poetry Space Thanksgiving Work