"The better you learn to take care of……" — Curtis Sittenfeld
"The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed."
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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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