Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Maggie Shipstead

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Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist. She is the author of Seating Arrangements (2012) and Astonish Me (2014). Seating Arrangements won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2012. Her third novel, Great Circle, was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and for the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction. It is about a fearless female aviator and the actress who portrays her on screen decades later as their lives intersect. Shipstead also spends much of her time traveling the world and is a frequent contributor to magazines including Condé Nast Traveler and Departures. A collection of short stories is expected in the summer of 2022.

American - Novelist | Born: 1983

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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.

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

Maggie Shipstead

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

Maggie Shipstead

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

Maggie Shipstead

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

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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

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

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

Maggie Shipstead

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

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Maggie Shipstead

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