Curtis Sittenfeld

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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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. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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I just write the books that I think I would want to read. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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