I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write characters. Some of those characters are women.
I never set out to be a published writer.
As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
I've always had difficulties with female characters.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.