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I'm SO trying to give up meat.

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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Obviously the bar is much higher now for a behavior to be scandalous. Social media has really changed the way people live. It's not a new impulse it's just being enacted in a new way.
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I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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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'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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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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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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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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In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
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If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.
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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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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 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 guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.
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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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If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.
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I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?
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We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
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