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Whenever you’re dealing with something that’s difficult to describe, that you can’t get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what’s easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is ‘romance.’

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Diana Gabaldon

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If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the ‘New York Times’ or any other respectable literary venue. And that’s okay. I can live with that.

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I read all the time. People ask, ‘Do you read while you work?’ And I say, ‘I better.’ I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can’t go that long without reading.

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April 25, 2024

I read all the time. People ask, ‘Do you read while you work?’ And I say, ‘I better.’ I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can’t go that long without reading.

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April 25, 2024

If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the ‘New York Times’ or any other respectable literary venue. And that’s okay. I can live with that.

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