Zitat des Tages von Curtis Sittenfeld:
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
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.
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.
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.
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
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.
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.
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
I'm so trying to give up meat.
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.
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.