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Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes
Page 1 of 1Curtis Sittenfeld
1975 -
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer
|  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 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. | | 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. | | 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. |
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