Top 23 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.