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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.

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Dani Shapiro
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: April 10
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When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.
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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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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
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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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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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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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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 could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.
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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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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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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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If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.
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There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.
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At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.
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Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
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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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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?
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Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.
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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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