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Curtis Sittenfeld [1975-0] American

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Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld is 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, as well as a number of short stories.

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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.		101
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.		102
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.		103
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.		104
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.		105
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.		106
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.		107
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.		108
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.		109
I'm so trying to give up meat.		110
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.		111
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.		112
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.		113
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.		114
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.		115
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.		116
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.		117
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.		118
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.		119
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.		120
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.		121
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.		122
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.		123

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