... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress,… — 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 feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship,… — 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
