"I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women."

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Source : "Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2010.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#Taken Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.108, Granta Books
“[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.”
“I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everythingâ€™s great â€“ thatâ€™s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to acknowledge the pain. But hope is saying thatâ€™s not the final story. Itâ€™s not saying pain doesnâ€™t exist, but itâ€™s saying thereâ€™s not a period at the end of that sentence. Itâ€™s still being written.”
“Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.”
“I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least not in the standard sense of nonfiction, nor especially in the way we were thinking about nonfiction back then, in the late 90s.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.”
“She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.”
“Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.”

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