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I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Novelist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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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 think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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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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The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.
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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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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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We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
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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 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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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 don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating
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I'm SO trying to give up meat.
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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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She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.
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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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There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.
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