Dani Shapiro

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.danishapiro.com/

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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Dani Shapiro is the author of five novels and the best-selling memoir Slow Motion. She has also written for magazines such as The New Yorker and Elle.

She lives with her husband and young son in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

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Books by Dani Shapiro

Average rating: 3.58 · 2,532 ratings · 472 reviews · 11 distinct works

	Family History 3.54 avg rating — 919 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Devotion: A Memoir 3.59 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Black & White 3.53 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Slow Motion 3.76 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Picturing the Wreck 3.39 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1337 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Best New American Voices 2010 by Dani Shapiro (Editor), John Kulka (Series Editor), Natalie Danford (Series Editor) 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Playing with Fire 3.49 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fugitive Blue 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tegenlicht: hoever mag een moeder gaan? by Dani Shapiro, Richard Kruis (Translator) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Familjebilder 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Quotes by Dani Shapiro

“A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it. Where she's stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it, even after all the meat seems to be gone. When a student of mine says (okay, whines) that she's impatient, or tired, or the worst: isn't it good enough? this may be harsh, but she loses just a little bit of my respect. Because there is no room for impatience, or exhaustion, or self-satisfaction, or laziness. All of these really mean, simply, that the inner censor has won the day.”
― Dani Shapiro

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“This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]”
― Dani Shapiro, Devotion: A Memoir

tags: sadness

5 people liked it

“I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult person, spiteful and full of rage, with a temper that could flare, seemingly out of nowhere, scorching everything and everyone who got in its way. [pp. 40-41]”
― Dani Shapiro, Devotion: A Memoir

tags: mother

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