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
Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to… — 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
“At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of… — 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
“Well--" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What… — 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
At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were… — 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
I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist,… — 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
“The interest I felt in certain guys then confused me, because it wasn't romantic, but I wasn't sure what else it might… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Far in the future, Hannah will have a boyfriend named Mike with whom she'll talk about her father. She'll say she isn't… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“By the time we met up again, she'd be able to hand her reaction to me as a tidy package: a single… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“My heart clutched - it was one of those moments when you feel time is a rug that's been yanked out from… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“After all, these were not topics you could discuss with someone else; what was there to say to another person about how… — 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
