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Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
Author
Novelist
New York City
New York
Complexity
Wise
Written
Bigs
Book
Familial
Love
Richness
Hearted
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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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We are tyrannized by our options.
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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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If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.
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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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The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.
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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
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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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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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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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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.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
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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.
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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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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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Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories
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Courage is more important than confidence
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