Boast Quote by Jane Austen

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind…

— Ariel Levy

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon

It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a…

— Marguerite Young

As a writer who happens to be a woman, I am constantly devalued - even by other writers who happen to be women -…

— Jillian Medoff

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

— William Saroyan

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be…

— Diablo Cody

I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or…

— Leni Zumas

I'm surprised how often I'm asked about being a man with a woman narrator. I'm not the first, nor will I be the last.…

— Rabih Alameddine

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live…

— Rebecca Miller