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Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1975

Topics

Life Time My Life Half Well Most

You don't write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig - that's survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.

Joe Strummer

Interesting Survival You Find Down

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Jeremy Corbyn

Ownership Back Want Population Even

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

John Kricfalusi

Want Human Audience Just Cartoons

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

John Madden

Life Day Job Think My Life You

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

People Succeed Impossible Face Know

I'm generally a very happy guy because I'm doing what I want. I'm willing to tell you that there are people who are much better than I am in writing. I don't have to be the fastest gun in the West.

Stephen J. Cannell

I Am Happy People Writing Better

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Stephen Hawking

Cannot Argue Mathematical Really

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

Sophia Amoruso

Girl Brand Name Everything Modern

When hearing aids were first mentioned, I pictured myself as that old geezer at the back of the church with the whistling ear trumpet, but you can't see these Phonak hearing aids, and people don't realise you've got them in.

Roger Taylor

Myself People Church You Back See

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Michael Nutter

Down Top Economy Out Middle Our

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

Lou Barletta

Work Government Big Just

We have come a long way from the first season of 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

Chuck Liddell

Long Fighter Way First Long Way