Book Quote by Kelly Sue DeConnick

I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female…

— Kathryn Lasky

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.

— Anna Quindlen

There's still only maybe three female writers or two female writers to 10 guys in any kind of writer's room.

— Kay Cannon

It's hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and dynamic.

— Rashida Jones

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

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

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am…

— Rachel Kushner

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

— Emma Donoghue

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

— Romola Garai

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without…

— Siri Hustvedt

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

— Margaret Atwood