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

Maria Semple

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is not about what it's like to be a black girl, it's about what it's like to be a girl.”
“She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.”
“When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.”

Source : "Ronald Reagan Dies". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 6, 2004.
“Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.”

Source : Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (1928). “San Min Chu I”
“I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I can't trust my computer, though I couldn't do without it. Books are matter. My books matter. What would I have done through these years without the library and all its lovely books?”
“I donâ€™t think writers compete, I think theyâ€™re all doing separate things in their own style.”
“I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art”
“Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.”

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