Maria Semple Quotes (4 quotes)

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„I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking.“
― Maria Semple ―
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„In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.“
― Maria Semple ―
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„My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.“
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„My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.“
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Maria Semple
Author born: November 30, 1963
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Novelist

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