Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

Curtis Sittenfeld — American Writer born on December 30, 1975,

Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld is an American writer. She is author of four 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 stories... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

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 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.

Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

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