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

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.