Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeldis an American writer. She is author of five novels: Prep, the tale of a Massachusetts prep school; The Man of My Dreams, a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love; American Wife, a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush; Sisterland, which tells the story of identical twins with psychic powers; and the forthcoming Eligible, which is a contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a number of short...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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There are a lot of things in the world that are a lot weirder than psychic abilities, that we accept as true.
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 wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
I guess because twins have this mystique, and triplets - I think the normal sibling connection potentially can be very powerful, and there's this idea that it's even more powerful. It really is, not just someone like me, but another version of me.
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.
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.