Quotes by : Maria Semple

Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone.

Maybe that’s what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will....

The sky in Seattle is so low, it felt like God had lowered a silk parachute over us. Every feeling I....

I was a ghost on a ghost ship in a ghost land

The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks...It's like they're....

I just want to hold you close." I gave Timby a squeeze. He relaxed in my embrace. "I'm wild about you,....

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable....

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

People like you must create. If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.

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....