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 had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never… — 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 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
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
In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not… — 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
