The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
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.
Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.
I think printed fiction is what women read.
I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.
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