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.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.