“...if he didn't fully understand where I came from, he understood who I was now -- he knew how well done I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“I decided we should get married no more of this running-through-the-rain shit. We should live in the same place, sleep in the… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“There then occurred the first and only paranormal incident of my marriage. Charlie shifted in his sleep, opened his eyes, looked at… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Whatever you are, be a good one." -Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)” — 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
![“Was this what marriage was, the slow process of getting to know another individual far better than was advisable? Sometimes [his] gestures and inflections were so mercilessly familiar that it was as if he were an extension of me, an element of my own personality over which I had little control.” quote by Curtis Sittenfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ce2/curtis-sittenfeld-1731_marriage_was-this-what-marriage-was-the-slow-proc_1287084.jpg)
