Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“His ambitions exceed his talent.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm so trying to give up meat.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Profii de aici le-au vazut pe toate. Noi ne percepem ca individualitati distincte, dar in ochii lor nu suntem decat o masa…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But still, Liz was unwilling to grant them access to her new and wondrous romance; she loved Darcy too much to prove…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“You don't make waves unless there's a reason, and it better be good. Because once you do, that's it. You're a trouble…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Dena seemed about to respond, but instead, she belched again, a smaller belch that seemed unequal as a harbinger to the monstrous…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But the truth was that I didn't want to stay in Riley. The pulls of familial love and obligation could not, for…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Sports contained the truth, I decided, the unspoken truth (how quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“I couldn’t tell them about Cross, I thought. I couldn’t tell them because Dede liked him and because she wouldn’t believe or…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“There then occurred the first and only paranormal incident of my marriage. Charlie shifted in his sleep, opened his eyes, looked at…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“This possibility was not flattering to me; it was terrifying. There were other things a guy could think I was, and he…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“But maybe this is what Hannah has always wanted: a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

— Curtis Sittenfeld