A Quote by Dani Shapiro

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Dani Shapiro

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Dani Shapiro
American - Author
Born: April 10, 1962

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