Helen Lewis
Having readers! I've been a journalist for 15 years, so I'm used to a lot of feedback (some of it . . . less than nice) but the quality of response to a book is very different. People carry books around with them from house to house. They scribble in the margins. They pull them off the shelf after five years.
Because Difficult Women features a lot of activists who are still alive, or whose friends/allies/enemies/frenemies are still alive, I have heard from so many people who lived through the events I'm describing. That has been incredible. I opened my inbox a while back to an 88-year-old who sent me a photo of herself with two of the women I'd written about. I love that. Becoming a writer is all about human connections, and I had made one.
Because Difficult Women features a lot of activists who are still alive, or whose friends/allies/enemies/frenemies are still alive, I have heard from so many people who lived through the events I'm describing. That has been incredible. I opened my inbox a while back to an 88-year-old who sent me a photo of herself with two of the women I'd written about. I love that. Becoming a writer is all about human connections, and I had made one.
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