Character Quote by Gail Simone

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female…

— Kathryn Lasky

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced…

— Jenji Kohan

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or emoting is…

— Jenna Ortega

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that…

— Molly Ringwald

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

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 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

Nobody ever has a problem if a man writes a woman. I wanted to be able to say, 'Well, I can write your men…

— Lisa Joy

All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten.…

— Ophelia Lovibond

I definitely identify with female leads more; I identify with real female leads, people who are flawed and have issues and make mistakes, so…

— Lights