Brutal Quote by Julianna Baggott

I wish I was a writer but I'm not. We can just hope that people realise that women actually have incredible stories to tell…

— Sarah Greene

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as…

— Donald Margulies

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person…

— Lena Dunham

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write…

— Isadora Duncan

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have…

— Ella Purnell

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

— Lucy Poate Stebbins

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

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

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

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 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