Curtis Sittenfeld Character Quotations

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.

I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I just like to inhabit a character really deeply.