My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
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.
I'm a writer first and a woman after.
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.
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.
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.
When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
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