American - Author | April 10, 1962 -
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
Dani Shapiro
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.
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We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
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When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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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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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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