Dani Shapiro Quotes

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Dani Shapiro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1962

Topics

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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

Stuart Symington

GovernmentWarAir ForceHimAir

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.

Slash

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I've always idolized Jay-Z He's one of my favorite persons, even before I knew him personally.

Romeo Santos

HimAlwaysFavoriteEvenKnewHe

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Rosie O'Donnell

PeaceWarRise AboveHandsRise

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

Mickey Rourke

FatherChildrenHateWantKindOwn

Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

Jonathan Galassi

AmericanBornBritishMostMilan

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Donald Fagen

TimeTime FliesYouGoingGetFlies

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will sound. You develop your style over your whole life and through countless influences. Don't impose something artificial.

Douglas Brunt

LifeStyleYouCopyWillSound

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

Christopher Alexander

BeautifulGreatYourselfTreesYou

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

Clemence Poesy

LifeParentsSisterLuckyAlways

We have to be thankful for what we have. A lot of kids would love to be in our situation, and we realize that.

Cole Sprouse

LoveThankfulSituationBe Thankful

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

Alison McGhee

CuteI AmCoolThinkShortLook

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