Different Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was,…

— Eva Mendes

I guess there are women who write from a very woman-centered place, but I don't consider myself to be one of them.

— Anna Boden

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

— Lauren Faust

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

— Marguerite Duras

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

— Stephen McCauley

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to…

— Jenny Han

How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that…

— Kate Zambreno

I want to be identified as a writer, not a Southern writer, not a woman writer, not a woman from this or that place,…

— Lauren Groff

“It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which…

— Christine Brooke-Rose