... 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.
Curtis SittenfeldI thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.
Curtis Sittenfeld... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.
Curtis SittenfeldIn some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
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