Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something … - Curtis Sittenfeld

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In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having had enough of us and decided to watch over us instead.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Even more than getting compliments on social media, what I love is when some random stranger says something very funny or insightful about my books, often in 140 characters or less! It's a very casual, low-stakes, non-burdensome way of connecting that I think is fun for both the writer and the reader. And there are a lot of clever people out there who have no connection to publishing.

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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.

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

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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.

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The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.

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

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