No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm aware more than I was before I had books published that any review is a bit arbitrary - it's not really,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
In 2013, before the publication of my fourth novel, I met with a stylist at Nordstrom. Since then, I've rarely shopped for… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“She came down to my dorm that night, knocking on the door around nine o'clock. Martha was at the library, and I was eating… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Approaching each other, him from the gym, me from the library- this was when I walked down the aisle and he was waiting, this… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“But the truth was that I didn't want to stay in Riley. The pulls of familial love and obligation could not, for the moment,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
