Any Quote by Alison Bechdel

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

— Emma Donoghue

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds…

— Alison Bechdel

It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thoughts about my books. I've…

— Sylvia Day

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

— Christie Hefner

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying…

— Cassandra Clare

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

Despite being a woman, somehow I have always found myself idolising male characters.

— Koel Mallick

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring,…

— A. A. Gill

There are also the people too bizarre to ignore, like Kyle Simpson. Future male stripper.

— Jay Asher

I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all…

— Junot Diaz

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I must write…

— Tom Stoppard

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

— Tracy Pollan