"Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to……" — Curtis Sittenfeld
"Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained."
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70 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I…
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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…
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go…
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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…
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds…
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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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