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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.

Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

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

My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.

I love stories about women.

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'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.