Able Quote by Anita Nair

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able…

— Marisha Pessl

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same…

— Lauren Groff

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam

while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

— Marguerite Duras

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go…

— Lorrie Moore

I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think, ultimately an…

— Katie Kitamura