Areas Quote by Isabel Allende

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

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

— William Gibson

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

— Sudha Murty

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 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

The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short,…

— Tom Robbins

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

— Jennifer Weiner

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

— William Gibson

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying…

— Kate Braverman

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character.…

— Elmore Leonard

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in…

— Leigh Bardugo