Dani Shapiro Quotes

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

Dani Shapiro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

JobImagineOnlyOurWitness

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

Joan Chen

FindMoreDifficultThanScenes

With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

John C. Mather

BookMissionLightsChapterWill

Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia for so long , it would be stupid not to be sensitive to the risk of such things occurring. But there has not been a famine on our watch - emergencies, but no famines.

Meles Zenawi

StupidLongRiskThingsWatchBeen

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Maya Lin

ArtArchitectureYourselfMeYou

I don't miss being a priest. The fulfillment factor in matrimony is far greater.

John J. McLaughlin

FulfillmentMissGreaterPriestFar

I'm no superman.

Michael Irvin

Superman

My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together.

Tori Spelling

MotherTogetherI AmGoBecomeShe

I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

Robert Englund

TodayWaterPeopleWindYouKnow

The way I started playing music was sitting around with friends and singing songs. I love good ol' fashioned guitar pulls.

Rodney Atkins

LoveGoodMusicSingingGuitarWay

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Ronald Reagan

WorldInnocentPlayAbroadInnocents

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Roy Lichtenstein

PaintingDrawingThingsSomething

I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.

Mary McCormack

LoveGoodFunPeopleThinkFeel

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