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
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.
I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.
She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?
When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.
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 always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.
I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.
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.