Quotes by : Maria Semple

That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged....

And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets....

I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris....

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

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

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

What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took....

My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of....

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