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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

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.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.