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
Curtis SittenfeldI just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Curtis SittenfeldAfter I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally would have seen that,’ I said, and as I felt myself implying the circumstances had prevented our kissing, I thought maybe this was why you told stories to other people – for how their possibilities enlarged in the retelling.
Curtis SittenfeldI wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.
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