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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. "

Curtis Sittenfeld

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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. "

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

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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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