Commitment Quote by Abi Morgan

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of…

— Jeanette Winterson

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

— Brit Marling

Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of…

— Gillian Flynn

But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still…

— Alan Bennett

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got…

— Neve McIntosh

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with…

— Michael Patrick King

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

— Jennifer Egan

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has…

— Kate Zambreno

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

— Maya Rudolph