Asks Quote by Maria Semple Download Open image “Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?” — Maria Semple ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asks Entertaining Writing
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining. — Kesha Copy Share Image
It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I read all of the stories that people write about me. The ones that are really interesting are the ones where they actually write… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It's not that I sit down and write great stuff without thinking, not at all. Most of it is terrible. But the stuff that… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I don't write because I think I have anything particularly interesting to say. I write because I love writing more than any other work… — Stefan Merrill Block Copy Share Image
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Here’s something about Mom: she’s bad with annoyances, but great in a crisis. If a waiter doesn’t refill her water after she’s asked three… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Parking in Seattle is an eight-step process. Step one, find a place to park (gooood luuuuck!). Step two, back into the angled parking space… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Eleanor's heart giggled with mad abundance: so much to share, so much goodwill, so many notes to compare, so many ways to help and… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Ten years ago I saw a documentary on the siege of that Moscow theater. After just forty-eight hours of the terrorists confining the hostages… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker,… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“The sight of Elgie flat on the slimy dock, groaning "My wife, my wife", with a gun pointed at him, and me jumping up… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
