Business Quote by Charles Stross

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens…

— Siri Hustvedt

For 'Gender Studies,' I wrote that story in May and June of 2016. People have said to me, 'Oh, it's a political allegory,' and…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered.…

— Maggie O'Farrell

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender…

— Maria Konnikova

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

— David Foster Wallace

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

— Charles Stross

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch