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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld
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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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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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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 don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, I need a little more psychological realism.
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I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
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At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.
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I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.
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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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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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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 think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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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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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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I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.
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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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If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.
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I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?
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I don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and romance. It's just so much fun. I don't know if there is some Darwinian thing in us that really responds to that, but I think the most memorable scenes to me in books and movies are the ones where a couple is about to kiss.
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