Dani Shapiro Way Quotations

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.

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.

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!

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.