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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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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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In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.
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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 do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
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I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.
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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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We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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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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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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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 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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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 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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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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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 always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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