Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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• I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male…
• People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have…
• I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it…
• It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a…
• Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated…
• If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has…
• I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
• I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
• I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
• High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
• My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still…
• I'm so trying to give up meat.
• I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the…
• Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in…
• I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
• I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
• I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
• I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
• In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

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