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

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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
Author
Novelist
New York City
New York
Memoir
Blame
Hurt
Creative
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
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When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.
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We don't choose what's going to wake us up.
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My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
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If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.
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Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
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We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
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I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.
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I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
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