Maria Semple Quotes

• The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

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  Interesting, Better Off

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• Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

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  Writing, Entertaining, Asks

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• I'm not too good when exposed to people

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  People, Exposed

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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 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.

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  Writing, Mean, Past

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• That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

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  Life, Girl, Thinking

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Por eso debes amar la vida: un día estás ofreciendo tu número de la seguridad social a la mafia rusa; dos semanas después estás usando la palabra calve como verbo.

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  Love Life, Offering, Two

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

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  Life, World, Dry

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• 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.

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  Escribir, Gente, Intentar

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

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  Muse, Not Sure, Seattle

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• I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Intensity

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• Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.

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  Hovering, Way, Pigeons

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• I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

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  Writing, Thinking, Scratches

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• I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

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  Character, Knowing, Giving

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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.

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  Smart, Stupid, Mean

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• We were like the Beatles, Dad.' 'I know you think that, sweetie' 'Seriously. Mom is John, you're Paul, I'm George, and Ice Cream is Ringo.' 'Ice Cream,' I said. 'Resentful of the past, fearful of the future...everytime we saw Ice Cream sitting there with her mouth open, we'd say, Poor Ice Cream, resentful of the past, fearful of the future.

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  Mom, Dad, Past

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• Cuando estoy resolviendo problemas de forma creativa, estoy en mi punto óptimo, y nada puede sacarme de ese alegre presente.

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  Sweet, Problem, Joyful

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• 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.

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  Dark, Thinking, World

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• When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

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  Eye, Brain, Horizon

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.

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  Wall, Dark, Years

  "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.

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

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  World, Want, Scared

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• Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

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  Stories, Television, Ruthless

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• I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

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  Trabajo, Escribir, Pensar

  "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. Ocotber 3, 2012.

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• I think because I try to keep things as real as I can, or I try to start from a place of reality, I almost don't have the imagination to write a book that's not set where I am.

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  Real, Libro, Escritura

  "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. October 3, 2012.

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• When "Here Comes the Sun" started, what happened? No, the sun didn't come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking through the clouds. You know how in the first few notes of that song, there's something about George's guitar that's just so hopeful? It was like when Mom sang, she was full of hope, too. She even got the irregular clapping right during the guitar solo. When the song was over, she paused. "Oh Bee," she said. "This song reminds me of you." She had tears in her eyes.

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  Mom, Song, Eye

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• My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

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  Television, Tvs, Interest

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