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“Here’s an old insight that I’ve offered many times throughout my career, realized as far back as my first novel, which I started in 1961: One of the best ways to portray characters is as a combination of purposeful actions, habitual actions, and gratuitous actions. And somehow even the most insig nificant male character almost always gets portrayed as a combination of all three. However, their same writers will find it impossible to portray women characters as exhibiting all three kinds of action. If the woman is an evil woman, she will be all purpose with no habits and nothing gratuitous about her; if she is a good woman, she will be all gratuitous action with no habits and no purpose. It’s a strange phenomenon. So when I was writing a set of three books called The Fall of the Towers, I sat down and made lists of all three kinds of action for the women characters; then as I got to the end of a chapter I would realize that I hadn’t put them in. This habit has all the structure of a psychosis. It really does. When you discover that you are a victim of a psychosis, you realize just how deeply it works into the whole of society.”

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