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Curtis Sittenfeld has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I…
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.…
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage…
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When…
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If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I…
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something…
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages.…
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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.
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