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I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.

~Maria Semple

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I'm not the comedy police, but you watch a movie, and everyone's laughing, and then you shake it out, and you realize, 'There's no joke there!'

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I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.

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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.

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If you're an artist and you're on Twitter, you are doomed to mediocrity.

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I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.

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On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.

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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.

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This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

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My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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