Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes - Page 3

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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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  School, High School, Intense

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• I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.

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  Encounters, Different, Needs

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• I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone who knows anything about publishing disagreeing with the statement that women writers today are often taken much less seriously than men writers. But it's hard to quantify, and even define, what being taken seriously means.

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  Taken, Mean, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm SO trying to give up meat.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Trying

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2010.

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• And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement. To spend a Saturday afternoon mopping your kitchen floor while listening to opera on the radio, and to go that night to an Indian restaurant with a friend and be home by nine o'clock - these are enough. They are gifts.

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  Home, Night, Appreciate

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• I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

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  Hypocrite, Views, Laughing

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• 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.

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  Clever, Fun, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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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  Lying, People, Doe

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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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  Thinking, Trying, Reader

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• If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.

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  Kissing, Men, Waiting

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• I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges on sales and recognition. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for ego, but a lot of it is just writers trying to ensure longevity to their career.

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  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

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  Life Is, Embarrassing, Time Passes

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• If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.

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  Senior, Wise, Real

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• If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

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  Waiting, Pressure, Situation

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• 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.

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  Book, Character, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

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  Curiosity, World, Vibrancy

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• Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.

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  Depressing, Needs, Half

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.114, Random House

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• What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

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  Bored, Together, Privilege

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2012). “American Wife”, p.349, Random House

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• I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

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  Intuition

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle.

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  Mistake, Doors, Worry

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

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  Wish, Bottles, Use

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.346, Random House

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• I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

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  Writing, Special, Trying

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• She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

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  Bystanders, Realizing, Destruction

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.45, Random House

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• ..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.

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  Loneliness, Believe, Boys

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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