Dani Shapiro Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

“With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.”

“Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'”

“When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.”

“I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.”

“I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”