Curtis Sittenfeld quotes - page 3

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)

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

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The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

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

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

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There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you-that both are inherently unfeminist. I don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return.

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I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

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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.

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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.

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Curtis Sittenfeld

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: August 23, 1975
Quotes count: 59

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