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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We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.
Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.
I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
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
We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others
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.
If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I fear Senior has been spying inside my house, All Joy is a must-read for those of us whose lives have been enriched and derailed by having kids.
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
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
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 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.
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.