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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. "
Curtis Sittenfeld
Feel
Go
Curious
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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. "
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" A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish now? How long will it be stylish for? It's slightly embarrassing to admit this - because, as a novelist, I'm supposed to be observant - but I'm flummoxed by the way other women dress. "
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" I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. "
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" In general, when any of us get outraged by relatively minor pop-cultural phenomena, I suspect it's a way of relaxing and not focussing on more daunting and intractable problems, whether personal or social. "
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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. "
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" I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write. "
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" I just write the books that I think I would want to read. "
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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. "
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" I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are. "
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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. "
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Day
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" Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently. "
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" When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. "
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Books
Doing
" There are always interesting, innovative, dynamic stories being written and being published. They're not always being prominently published, but they're being published. "
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Stories
Always
Dynamic
" There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am. "
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" I should probably be careful admitting this, but sometimes, when my characters are having a disagreement, it's a disagreement I'm having with myself. I can see both sides of the argument. "
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" Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time. I guess it's much more interesting to me to write someone who is a combination of good and bad qualities because that's what people are like in real life. "
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Time
Life
Me
" I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors. "
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More
Much
Up
" No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can. "
Curtis Sittenfeld
Need
Feel
Perfect
" 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. "
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Girl
" I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them. "
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" I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. "
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" I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you. "
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" I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself. "
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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. "
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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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" People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. "
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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. "
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" Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret. "
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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. "
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