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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something... →
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male... →
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell... →
I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a... →
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside... →
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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