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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience.

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

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

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.