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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

I have always advised men to read.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

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.

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

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