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

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• 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:

  I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

  Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

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

• Curtis Sittenfeld:

  My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hu