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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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I'm so trying to give up meat.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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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.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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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.

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

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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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