Inspirational Quote by Margaret Atwood

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face…

— Ben Kingsley

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

— Ken Liu

while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

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

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

— Chris O'Dowd

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

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

— Lisa Gardner

Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.

— Julian Barnes

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