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My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.
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maria-semple 玛丽亚·塞姆普 名人名言
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
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I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
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In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
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An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
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My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
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There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.
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I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
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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.
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And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
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