Maria Semple Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and its 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 dont go running or hard hiking.

  Maria Semple

  Running, Couple, Home

• I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

  Maria Semple

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. Ocotber 3, 2012.

• When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

  Maria Semple

  Book, Writing, Snapshots

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

  Maria Semple

  Writing, Thinking, Scratches

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the past or the future or how it's going to be received. I feel that I'm very lucky that way; I don't carry that particular anxiety around with me. I'm not anxiety-free by any means, but that happens to be one that I've been spared.

  Maria Semple

  Writing, Mean, Past

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

  Maria Semple

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

  Maria Semple

  Writing, Entertaining, Asks

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• 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

  Real, Book, Writing

  "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. October 3, 2012.

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