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

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 guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.
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There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
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I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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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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After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.
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Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.
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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 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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We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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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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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
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I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
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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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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 feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.
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