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.

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• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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  Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoy

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

  You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go reall

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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