Maria Semple Love Quotations

The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones.

I love epistolary novels and became wildly excited when the form presented itself to me.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.