Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Thinking, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

• I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Really Deep

  Source: therumpus.net

• It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for pleasure. This time, I was really looking at the structure, the order of events, how the characters interact with each other and how the book is paced.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Book, Character, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I feel that Pride and Prejudice is an incredibly well constructed novel on every level. The dialogue is great. The character development is great. The plotting is great. The pacing is great. The language is great.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Pride, Prejudice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It's a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Clever, Fun, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Character, Males, Female

• I liked the idea of giving Eligible a feminist flavor. While I do think that in Pride and Prejudice, Liz Bennet is very bold, she is also very restricted in terms of what's appropriate for her to do and the ways it's appropriate for her to behave. One of the differences between Pride and Prejudice and Eligible is that my female characters take more initiative in their romantic lives.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Pride, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Character, Thinking, Two

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.

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