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I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism."

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

She would say that we create our own reality-that the truth, ultimately, is what we choose to believe.

Liz had tried not to experience the doubly insulting sting of being excluded by a person she didn't care for.

You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?

I want to open myself up, I want to experience other dimensions, I don't want to be bound by the rules of this world. Does that make me a freak?

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.

I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

And how heartbreaking, because if it were all just a few degrees different, she is pretty sure they could be quite happy together.

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

His ambitions exceed his talent.

I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

If it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids.

Being called baby: like safaris and bowling leagues, a phenomenon she never thought she'd experience first hand.

Mr. Bennet stood, dropping his napkin on the table. As interesting as I find this conversation, an urgent matter has come up. I need a hamburger.

get more stupider.

My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

Oh, how different my life would have been had I not grown up in the same house with my grandmother, how much narrower and blander!

I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

You don't need anyone else's approval or permission to enjoy the magic of writing.

Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it.

Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified.

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.

Does being forty feel fabulous and foxy? Liz asked.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.

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.

Only part you have to apologize for is getting me all horned up and then passing out, but I'll take a rain check

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She

But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

You know what her punishment is for tormenting you way back when?" he said.
I looked at him.
He said, "her punishment is being her,

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?

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.

Whatever you are, be a good one.
-Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife)

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

It struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true.

Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

Long ago I had become my own confidant.

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

But then I think how I grew sick of kissing him. How can you spend your life with a person you're sick of kissing?

Children are nothing but a problem people create and then congratulate themselves on solving.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

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

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.

I'm so trying to give up meat.

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.

Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

A reality show isn't unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, then," Mr. Bennet said. "In that they both require nominations.

She might even have felt that self-congratulatory pride that heterosexual white people are known to experience due to proximate diversity.

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

She wasn't wrong, which wasn't the same as the idea being a wise one.

I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I think I would have liked to have been a twin. Sometimes my sisters and I get mistaken for twins, and I always take it as a compliment.

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.

... it never comes down to a single thing you did or didn't do or say. You might convince yourself it did, but it didn't.

For months I heard whispers and though it had seemed that they were carried to me on the wind, they were really coming from inside my own head.

What greater happiness is there than the privilege of being bored together?

There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school.

Rudolph Walsh, you are my fierce advocate, and your wit and wisdom

I'm not a Democrat because I haven't thought about the issues. I'm a Democrat because I have.

I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.

The fact that I had no opinion on, for instance, relations between the U.S. And China did nit mean I didn't feel things.

I felt an old, visceral insecurity that manifested itself in an impulse to cover up our cribbage game, to literally shield the board with my hands.

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.