Categories Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

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

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

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

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it…

— Rachel Cusk

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that…

— Molly Ringwald

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

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

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only…

— Miranda July