Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.
Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.
Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.
Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.
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