Maggie Shipstead Quotes

• Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Female, Prevention, Nine

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• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

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• How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Dream, Strange, Turns

  Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

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• I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Thinking, Sitting, Computer

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• Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Honesty, Book, School

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• Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Writing, Fighting, Stories

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• I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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• If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Stories, Discouraged, Individual

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• I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Body, Lone

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