Latest Maria Semple Quotes from Interviews

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• Being in writers' rooms turns you feral. You are swearing, you are going to very dark, mean places. You start out in the room with all these smart people, and you're all well-read and well-educated and the humor is really erudite. And then over the course of the year, after the production schedule grinds you down, it is just so mean and stupid.

  Maria Semple

  Smart, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• You come out into the world after a season of TV and you're just swearing and saying mean things to people and they're looking at you like, Who are you? And oh yeah, you think, I have to reacclimate to the way people genuinely treat each other.

  Maria Semple

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• My day is not that fun-filled or that filled usually with complications.

  Maria Semple

  Fun, Filled, Complication

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• I love the camaraderie of a writers' room.

  Maria Semple

  Rooms, Camaraderie

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

  Maria Semple

  Home, My Boyfriend, Awful

  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

• My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it.

  Maria Semple

  Dark, Thinking, World

  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

• 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 want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.

  Maria Semple

  World, Want, Scared

  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 creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

  Maria Semple

  Sweet, Problem, Joyful

  Source: www.usatoday.com

• 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

• Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

  Maria Semple

  Muse, Not Sure, Seattle

  Source: www.usatoday.com