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I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading Saul Bellow is a revelation, but he can't write women. There are exceptions, like Marilynne Robinson's 'Gilead,' but generally, I think it's true.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.