Best quotes by Maria Semple on Work

Checkout quotes by Maria Semple on Work

• ‟ After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap. That's a big one, the napping on demand!

  - Maria Semple
  

• ‟ After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.

  - Maria Semple
  

• ‟ And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

  - Maria Semple
  

• ‟ 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
  

• ‟ Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

  - Maria Semple