American - Writer | 1975 -
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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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.
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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.
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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
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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.
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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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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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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.
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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.
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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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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
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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.
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