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Dani Shapiro is an acclaimed American author born on April 10, 1962. She is known for her works in the genres of fiction, essays, and memoirs, which are characterized by their profound emotional depth and delicate prose.

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“I'll have my students try to follow their minds during the course of a day, just to see the way their minds work, the way our minds hop from thing to thing to thing. The Internet mirrors that to such a degree you can actually see it. Show me your search history and I'll show you who you are.”

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“Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.”

Trying Moments Fingers Slips Things Change

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“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]”

Way Trying Persons Mother Difficult Childhood Rage Temper Adulthood Flare Spiteful Scorching

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“I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.”

Trying Wells Jobs Remember Joy Artist Anxiety Embrace Uncertainty Unexpected Plight

Book:Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

“I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring, or the email to pop up in our in box. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen - if they happen at all - when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.”

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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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“It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.”

Thinking Trying Dream Alive Failing Sitting Engaged Resisting Unraveling

Book:Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

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Born: April 10, 1962
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Quotes: 121

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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative LifeRelated source material

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and LoveRelated source material

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