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You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

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.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It's been a largely female-driven world.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.