A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
I think printed fiction is what women read.