Curtis Sittenfeld

I'm so trying to give up meat. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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