Books Quote by John O'Hara

They say great themes make great novels

— John O'Hara

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster

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

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by…

— Laurie Foos

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed

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

— Jennifer Weiner

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam