Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

• 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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• The fact is that in this day and age I don’t think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

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• In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

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• When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

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• There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

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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. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

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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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• I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

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• I’m able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

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• Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person – not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way – I don’t think that’s exploitive.

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• I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

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• Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

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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 else, that’s exciting.

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• You know, the point of a novel – or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people’s lives and inside their personal experiences.

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• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

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• I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

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• I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

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• I’m so trying to give up meat.

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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 you’re so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

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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 girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

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Curtis Sittenfeld (23)

Birth:	1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is an American novelist. She is author of four novels: Prep, the tale of a Massachusetts prep school; The Man of My Dreams, a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love; American Wife, a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush, and Sisterland, which tells the story of identical twins with psychic powers, as well as a number of short stories. At Stanford, she studied Creative Writing, wrote articles for the college newspaper, and edited that paper's weekly arts magazine. At the time, she was also chosen as one of Glamour magazine's College Women of the Year. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

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