I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.