Age Quote by Donna Tartt

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

— Van Wyck Brooks

There should be a greater register that the public is quite interested in mature women. It's really about the story; it shouldn't matter whether…

— Andie MacDowell

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

— Siri Hustvedt

“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

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

— Emma Donoghue

“Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be…

— Philippa Gregory

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

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that…

— Sherwood Smith

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

“I had come at last, in the course of this rambling, to the shelves which hold books by the living; by women and by…

— Virginia Woolf