Be a man Quote by Ann Beattie

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and…

— Philip Pullman

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when…

— Meg Cabot

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a…

— Barbara Crampton

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

— Elisabeth Moss

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same…

— Lulu Wang

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

— Henry Fielding

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of…

— Tessa Thompson