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Writing Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
- 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…
- I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
- 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 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.
- There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
- When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
- She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.
- 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…
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