Dark Quote by Karin Slaughter

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

— Ken Follett

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

— Ken Follett

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

— Natalie Dormer

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and…

— Karin Slaughter

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

Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.

— Frankie Shaw

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

I have always been a dark writer.

— George R. R. Martin

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

— Emma Donoghue

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

— Rita Mae Brown

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

— Lisa Scottoline

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin