Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Fiction, Way

• Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Avid, Order

• If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't know what it is about human beings but most of us really like reading about or observing sexual tension and romance. It's just so much fun. I don't know if there is some Darwinian thing in us that really responds to that, but I think the most memorable scenes to me in books and movies are the ones where a couple is about to kiss.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Couple, Fun, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

• 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

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