Agents Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

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

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality…

— Alfred Bester

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

“Women are much more than men in touch with their emotional intelligence. That explains why women read fiction books while men stick to the…

— M.Z.Riffi

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of…

— Marjorie M. Liu

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

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics…

— Cynthia Ozick

There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny…

— Laeta Kalogridis

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 think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You…

— Nora Roberts