Top 9 Quotes by Maggie Shipstead

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

Female, Prevention, Nine

With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

Maggie Shipstead

Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

Maggie Shipstead

Dream, Strange, Turns

Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

Maggie Shipstead

Thinking, Sitting, Computer

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Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

Maggie Shipstead

Honesty, Book, School

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

Maggie Shipstead

Writing, Fighting, Stories

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I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

Maggie Shipstead

Writing, Thinking, Long

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