Maria Semple Quotes

Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.

I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

Writing will remain a passion project.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

I was always meant to be a writer. I've felt that way since I was a child.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing.

I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.

I love to write. It's my first love.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.