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I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: Entertain More Myself Purge Reader Than Think Trying

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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.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: Because Boarding Boarding School Day Everyone Everything Gets High High School Hours Intense School Very You 24 Hours

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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

Topics: About Biology Boarding Boarding School Enough Experience Feelings Had Hundreds Only Pages Pigs School Smell Still Strong The Only Thing Thing Write I Can

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There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: Also Books Doing First Jobs Odd Other Teaching Two Writing

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In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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I see 'Eligible' as a homage, and I see 'Pride and Prejudice' as a perfect book. You can dispute whether this project is a good idea, but you can't dispute my fondness for the novel.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

Topics: Book Dispute Eligible Fondness Good Good Idea Homage Idea Novel Perfect Prejudice Pride Project See Whether You I See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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