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I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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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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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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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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There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
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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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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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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 just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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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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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.
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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 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 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 don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, I need a little more psychological realism.
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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 that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.
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I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.
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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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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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