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

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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
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I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.
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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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What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
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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?
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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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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
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I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.
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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.
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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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If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.
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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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When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.
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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.
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There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.
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