Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro
Daneile Joyce "Dani" Shapiro is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoirs Slow Motion and Devotion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and ELLE...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 April 1962
CountryUnited States of America
heart open-your-heart deep-inside
Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.
pain heartache protect
We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.
heart son moments
My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.
pain heartache facts
We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
spiritual pain heartache
Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
dull hiding inside
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.
fallen legs moved
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
guru social function
If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an accidental guru.
pieces want one-piece
I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
thinking community solitude
I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.
public-speaking bigger found
I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.
community littles hungry
We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.
believe world given
You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.