Book Quote by Lauren Groff

Something we do know is that review coverage does go to male authors more than women authors. That's a fact. I think it's one…

— Emma Donoghue

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more…

— Jennifer Weiner

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

— Kate Zambreno

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

— Lisa Gardner

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

— John O'Hara

I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create…

— Jessica Chastain

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise…

— Alexander Theroux

I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a…

— Marian Keyes

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism…

— Jami Attenberg

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

It's not a matter of whether the reviews of your books are good or bad, it's about being taken seriously, both as a woman…

— Edwidge Danticat

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we…

— Erica Jong