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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. ↗

— 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

#i #i do #more #myself #purge

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

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

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

#characters #comes #created #does #female

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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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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...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#beauty #bewitched #fairy-tales #unbelief #beauty

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

#curious #else #exciting #feel #go

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