#ge

My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american life #average #average people #create #developing

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#brothers #bruise #burt #burt reynolds #call

I was meeting the ball better. The averages don't always tell the whole truth. ↗

— George Sisler

#averages #ball #better #i #meeting

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

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #i do #more #myself #purge

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

#else #feel #girl #hard #imagine

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

#biology #boarding #boarding school #enough #experience

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

#books #captivated #could #enjoyed #hmm

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

#any #assume #attention #book #day

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#element #ever #get #hot #hot water

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#aim #already #assuring #encourage #flattery