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Take a picture. It lasts longer.
— Maria Semple
I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost island
— Maria Semple
There was no relief deeper than being loved by the person who'd known you the longest.
— Maria Semple
I stormed out and got ice cream and cried in my car
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You bet your bindi that's how big I want it.
— Maria Semple
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
— Maria Semple
I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
— Maria Semple
I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
— Maria Semple
People say Seattle is one of the toughest cities in which to make friends. They even have a name for it, the 'Seattle freeze'.
— Maria Semple
The way you might fear a cow sitting down in the middle of the street during rush hour, that's how I fear Canadians.
— Maria Semple
But you have a vision. You put a frame around it. You sign your name anyway. That's the risk. That's the leap.
— Maria Semple
People who don't get seasick have no idea what it's like. It's not just nausea. It's nausea plus losing the will to live.
— Maria Semple
life is one long headwind. To make any kind of impact requires self-will bordering on madness.
— Maria Semple
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.
— Maria Semple
If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.
— Maria Semple
I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.
— Maria Semple
One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.
— Maria Semple
A live concert needs to be listened to live. Otherwise, it's like eating day-old salad.
— Maria Semple
Now that Dad was crying, I was, like, both of us can't be sitting on rocks in Antarctica crying. It's going to be OK, Dad.
— Maria Semple
I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.
— Maria Semple
I don't know if it's possible to feel everything all at once, so much that you think you're going to burst.
— Maria Semple
I'm not too good when exposed to people
— Maria Semple
When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
— Maria Semple
My problems are all problems I'm lucky to have. And I know it, so therein lies the rub.
— Maria Semple
My favorite kind of book is a domestic drama that's grounded in reality yet slightly unhinged.
— Maria Semple
I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
— Maria Semple
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
— Maria Semple
Seattle is the only city where you step in shit and you pray, Please God, let this be dog shit.
— Maria Semple
It's what I imagined England would look like.
— Maria Semple
I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
— Maria Semple
Let's keep that our little secret, shall we.
— Aimee Semple McPherson
I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
— Maria Semple
It's a quantum physics concept where everything that can happen, is happening, in an infinite number of parallel universes.
— Maria Semple
How's your day so far?""Oh, can't complain," he said. "You?"
"Can complain, but won't. — Maria Semple
The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.
— Maria Semple
Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick two.
— Maria Semple
Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.
— Maria Semple
You don't have to comment on every boring thing you do." I said. "This isn't Olympic curling. You're just unpacking a suitcase.
— Maria Semple
People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.
— 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.
— Maria Semple
This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.
— Maria Semple
But fear not: I do underdog.
— Maria Semple
The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.
— Maria Semple
I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.
— Maria Semple
don't care where you live, but here in Seattle, our restaurants are better than your restaurants. "Hmmm,
— Maria Semple
Lift up your heads, ye people,lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you. — Aimee Semple McPherson
There was something unspeakably
— Maria Semple
She's wearing this backpack with yarn coming out of it, so she can knit while she's standing.
— Maria Semple
I'm grieving over what a jerk you are...
— Maria Semple
I loved you all over again
— Maria Semple
I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.
— Maria Semple
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' was surprisingly easy and fun to write because I was feeling such strong emotions.
— Maria Semple
Pain I'm good with. It's discomfort I can't handle.
— Maria Semple
Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?
— Maria Semple
Ruthless concern with story is what I learned 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.
— Maria Semple
There's a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.
— Maria Semple
I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.
— Maria Semple
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
— Aimee Semple McPherson
With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!
— Aimee Semple McPherson
Life is a stew, and pot is poop.If someone stirred even a teeny-bit of poop in the stew, would you really want to eat it?
— Maria Semple
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
— Maria Semple
Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.
— Maria Semple
What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and girl!
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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
