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- 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…
- I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
- I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
- I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
- It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.
- When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.
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