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

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
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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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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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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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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 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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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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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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