Arise Quote by James Payn

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents…

— Elizabeth Berg

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

— Len Wein

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

— Gilles Deleuze

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the…

— Molly Ringwald

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been…

— Simone de Beauvoir

When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled…

— Lionel Shriver

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but…

— Erica Jong

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same…

— Lauren Groff

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

— George Ade

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri