Becomes Quote by Elmore Leonard

“You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations with all…

— Italo Calvino

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

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

— William Gibson

I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main…

— Kate Zambreno

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story…

— Joan D. Vinge

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with…

— Noelle Stevenson

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of…

— Joan Didion

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

When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife,…

— Vera Farmiga

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't…

— Geena Davis

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has…

— Linda Woolverton