Maggie Shipstead

“No number of compliments will convince her of anything, and one of Jacob’s projects in their marriage is to wean her off…

— Maggie Shipstead

“a voice that signaled he was being kind but not sincere.”

— Maggie Shipstead

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

— Maggie Shipstead

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

— Maggie Shipstead

Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that…

— Maggie Shipstead

With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land…

— Maggie Shipstead

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's…

— Maggie Shipstead

“The flowers, the candles, the easy swing of the music, his daughter's perfectly made-up face, her artfully arranged hair, the swell of…

— Maggie Shipstead

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

— Maggie Shipstead

“Marriage is difficult, perhaps the most difficult thing you can ever do, besides being a parent, but I think these two fine…

— Maggie Shipstead

“He let go, releasing her into a life of her own making.”

— Maggie Shipstead

“What do I do?’ she had asked Harry. ‘What do I do now? Everything is ruined. You’ve ruined everything.’ ‘That you think…

— Maggie Shipstead

“Ordinarily, her love affairs are entered into skittishly, sometimes reluctantly. She doesn't dive into bed but flutters in like a wayward moth.”

— Maggie Shipstead

“An airplane crossed the sky, and she imagined its interior-people packed in rows like eggs in a carton, the chemical smell of…

— Maggie Shipstead

“Dicky and Maude lived within familiar confines: the Ivy League, the Junior League, The Social Register, Emily Post, Lilly Pulitzer, the Daughters…

— Maggie Shipstead

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

— Maggie Shipstead

“Though she would never say so, Sandy holds the opinion that mothers who keep their figures have sacrificed less than mothers who…

— Maggie Shipstead

“She hates to disappoint him. She fears the slow, corrosive trickle of reality into his adulation.”

— Maggie Shipstead

“She had seen too many movies; she did not understand that love was a choice, entered and exited by free will and…

— Maggie Shipstead

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

— Maggie Shipstead

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

— Maggie Shipstead