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I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

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

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

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

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

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

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

I think printed fiction is what women read.