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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Along Back Blow Car Chords Down Driving Few Hair High-School Just Make Me Opening Radio Road Roll Sometimes Song Springsteen Thunder Want Wind Window Years

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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Aches Away Down Dull Hiding Inside Moment Our Pain Reach Reaching Something Us Very

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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Our Pain Part Who

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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.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: About Fluent Hebrew Jew Me Old Orthodox Raised Spoke Stranger Things Thirteen Until Years I Was Raised

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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Act Adult Commercials Kid Television Used Young Young Adult

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Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Because Books Film Films Husband Love Me Much Person Screenwriter Stay Still Strange Stranger Watching Way I Love

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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Actually Find Gets Inspires Listen Me Mood Music Puts Right Way Write I Write

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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: About Haunting Life Me My Own Novels Own Realising Really Running Started Themes Through Were

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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: Beautiful Decision Focus Had Looks Made Myself Never No Sense Parents Sense

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There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

~Dani Shapiro

Topics: About Because Danger Explode Feeling Hair Hard Hard Work Head Like Means Out Really Tearing Work Writer Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 10th, 1962

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