Character Quote by Jane Heller

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

— Ang Lee

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

— William Gibson

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

— Elisha Cuthbert

Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and…

— Charlotte Mendelson

You don't really have a story until you discover the moment when the pressures on a character force a sudden, abrupt shift in direction…

— Catherine Brady

There's a kind of chemical spark that comes sometimes with the character, that you don't even have to think about how she is reacting,…

— Ludivine Sagnier

When we create female characters, I think often there is a tendency to kind of make female characters emotionally bulletproof.

— Ashly Burch

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

— Nicole Holofcener

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

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

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