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Maria Semple Quotes

American - Novelist | May 21, 1964 -

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.

Youth Reading Room Hostel Bunk Many

We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.

Business Small Small Business Need

When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise.

Good Laughter Me Book Reality Laugh

I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Home Time Walk School Writing I Can

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

Freedom Me Story Calendar Go Will

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

Crazy Feel Anxiety You Know Because

I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk. I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.

Walk Writing I Can Go Serious Hard

I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

People Reading Feel Mail Just Like

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

Seattle Taste Superior Supposed

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Talent Smart People Research Finding

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Time Moment Pain Story Think You

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Story Television Ruthless Concern

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