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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.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Cincinnati
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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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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 has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.
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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 guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.
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We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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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 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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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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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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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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Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.
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I'm SO trying to give up meat.
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination
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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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In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
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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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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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