Both ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ and my first novel, ‘This One is Mine,’ are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result. Maria Semple Read Quote
When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette,’ in 2010, TED was exploding. Maria Semple Read Quote
Creating art is painful. It takes time, practice, and the courage to stand alone. Maria Semple Read Quote
When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don’t. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it’s always a delightful surprise. Maria Semple Read Quote
I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature. Maria Semple Read Quote
We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy. Maria Semple Read Quote
When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of ‘Let’s Go Europe’ in one hand, ‘Anna Karenina’ in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark. Maria Semple Read Quote
Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ is an epistolary novel – one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents. Maria Semple Read Quote
