Any Quote by Kathryn Lasky

I always say, if a guy writes the same lead female character type over and over, we are not seeing their writing chops so…

— Gail Simone

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able…

— Marisha Pessl

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

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

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

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced…

— Jenji Kohan

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

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

I definitely identify with female leads more; I identify with real female leads, people who are flawed and have issues and make mistakes, so…

— Lights

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

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