Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

I'm paranoid of people hating on me.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

I'm a total wreck. Afraid to let anyone near. Afraid they'll see the real me.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I guess I just don't like being physically in front of people I don't know very well, because I expect to be 'seen through,' or, even worse, instantly hated.

So many people hide inside their clothes.

I'm deeply insecure. I ask my wife all the time, 'Was that OK? Are people lying?' I'm not as happily oblivious as I'd like.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

You have to write about what scares you.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.

I've always been quite an insecure person.

Kids naturally tend to be a bit camera shy, especially in front of strangers.

Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody see my nails painted.