Guy Quote by Lena Dunham

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 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

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

My idea is to write a story where every character is well etched out, irrespective of their gender. Because they all are human beings…

— Sriram Raghavan

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each…

— Tina Fey

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

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

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian

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'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright