Curtis Sittenfeld

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

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!