Top 23 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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