It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.
Curtis SittenfeldBeing raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.
Curtis SittenfeldI'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
Curtis SittenfeldTo remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.
Curtis SittenfeldI liked the idea of giving Eligible a feminist flavor. While I do think that in Pride and Prejudice, Liz Bennet is very bold, she is also very restricted in terms of what's appropriate for her to do and the ways it's appropriate for her to behave. One of the differences between Pride and Prejudice and Eligible is that my female characters take more initiative in their romantic lives.
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