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Thinking Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
- The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
- Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
- We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was…
- There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these…
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