One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
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. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live – the way you live – then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself. Dani Shapiro Read Quote
