I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
From Curtis Sittenfeld
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
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.
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
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