259 Quotes by Curtis Sittenfeld

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

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

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

Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.

I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.

I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

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