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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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" In general, I believe it's fine to have impassioned conversations about Gwyneth Paltrow, but those of us who do so should admit it's a recreational activity and not a moral referendum. "

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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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" For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and I think, 'Sure.' The political stuff is definitely there. But that's why I like fiction; there can be lots of different things going on, and it's all intertwined, and you can't separate out what's in what category. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability to shop for clothes. "

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

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

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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. "

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" I'm so trying to give up meat. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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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 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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" I enjoy reading tips about how to be more organized, and I rarely implement them. "

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

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" There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper. "

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

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