Finding Quote by Maria Semple

“My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.”

Maria Semple

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“The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.”

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“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.”

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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…

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…

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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of…

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“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…

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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…

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“Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require a thinker,…

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“The sight of Elgie flat on the slimy dock, groaning "My wife, my wife", with a gun pointed at him, and me jumping up…

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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.…

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