Maria Quotes

You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.

People develop their health habits when they're kids, and that carries through their whole life.

To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.

To me, the most important thing is, what do our customers think.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

Any time a new technology is introduced, like when TV was first invented, everybody was like, "Radio's dead."

The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

I don't make promises.

I would love to see us all succeed together, but we will do what we have to do to succeed and survive in that sustainable way that benefits everyone.

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

Unfortunately Seattle is my muse, for the better or worse of Seattle - I'm not sure.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

I want find a part of myself that I feel shame about, or that I feel really scared of exposing to the world.

My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it.

When I'm creatively solving problems, I'm in my sweet spot, and nothing can take me out of that joyful present.

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Mad About You fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

One of the main reasons I don't like leaving the house is because I might find myself face to face with a Canadian.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

I'll see something awful on the street and I'll come home and say to my boyfriend, "I just saw the funniest thing on the street." It's a stance. It's the way I was born, or the way I was damaged.

Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather.

You bet your bindi that’s how big I want it.

My day is not that fun-filled or that filled usually with complications.

I love the camaraderie of a writers' room.

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

It'll be great. Of course I was disappointed last year. But . . I'll get my revenge.

I'd probably start charging for medical timeouts. I think we'd all see who really uses them and who doesn't.

When you are young, you are a little naive.

When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

That's why we have journalists, for stats.

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.

I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.

This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

When I make a commitment I stick to it.

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

Sugar free? With the name Sugarpova I don't think I will be doing anything sugar free very soon.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.