Books Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

— Ashly Burch

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 don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen…

— J. J. Abrams

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

There is so much room for gender-neutral characters.

— Ruth Bradley

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

— Vera Farmiga

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

— Tracy Pollan

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

— Vera Farmiga

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

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to…

— Tate Taylor

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

— Todd Haynes