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I write characters. Some of those characters are women.

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.

I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.