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 don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think there is still pressure to marry. I think there is still pressure to have children. If you're middle or upper… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. — 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 think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I think I would have liked to have been a twin... Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all… — 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
I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and… — 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
I liked the idea of giving Eligible a feminist flavor. While I do think that in Pride and Prejudice, Liz Bennet is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking… — 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
I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe. — 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
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth… — 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
