Just found a little more info. on this. In an undated interview, when asked about writing from a woman's perspective, Patterson says:
"I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk."Notice the similarity between this answer and the answer he gave in the video found in