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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.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
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Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld
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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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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'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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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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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
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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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When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
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Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.
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I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.
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I actually liked the disolation of winter it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.
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I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.
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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 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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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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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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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
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She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?
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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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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.
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I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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