Books Quote by Gillian Flynn

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying…

— Cassandra Clare

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

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief…

— Courtney A. Kemp

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 think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and…

— Todd Haynes

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to be scooped…

— Karin Slaughter

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

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

— Julianna Margulies

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon