Men Quote by Jonathan Franzen

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

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.

— Dale Spender

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

— Kate Zambreno

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men.…

— A. S. Byatt

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

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to be scooped…

— Karin Slaughter

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference…

— Margaret Atwood

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face…

— Ben Kingsley

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more…

— Jennifer Weiner