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I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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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

Topics: Air Any Because Characters Class Commentary Gender Get Grocery Grocery Store Interactions Just Kind Never Onto Other Out Plane Political Room Something Store Stuff Through Try Us Write

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I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist, that I wouldn't just write full time. It's such a part of my life, and in some ways, it's a very unromantic part of my life. It's almost, to me, like breathing. I don't think about whether I like it or not.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.

~Curtis Sittenfeld

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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