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
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — 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
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
No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can. — 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
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 thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is… — 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
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I… — 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
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — 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… — 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
