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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.

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
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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 does with male characters and male authors
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And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.
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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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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman. I mean, more readers are women and more people who buy books are women, so I don't feel like it's a total disadvantage to be a female writer.
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We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.
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