Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
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. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
I’m able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you’re there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
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. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
I’m aware more than I was before I had books published that any review is a bit arbitrary – it’s not really, say, ‘The New York Times’ that’s authoritatively weighing in on the quality of a book, though it seems this way to the public. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a room or out of a room, or onto the plane, or through the grocery store. The political stuff, the class stuff, the gender stuff, is in the air, it’s in their interactions, because it’s there for all of us. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
It’s never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it’s an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man. Curtis Sittenfeld Read Quote
