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On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.
— Maria Semple
Tags: go, you, good, work

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In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
— Maria Semple
Tags: worth, only, reading, way
I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
— Maria Semple
Tags: feel, research, imagination, failure
I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.
— Maria Semple
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
— Maria Semple
Tags: always, way, time, myself
My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
— Maria Semple
Tags: mind, father, world, good
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