Author: Maria Semple

Quotes

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.

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.

- Maria Semple

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

- Maria Semple

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

- Maria Semple

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

- Maria Semple

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.

- Maria Semple

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

- Maria Semple

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

- Maria Semple

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

- Maria Semple

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

- Maria Semple

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