In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.