Top 23 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm so trying to give up meat.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

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

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.