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Curtis Sittenfeld

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

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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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