About Quote by Meg Wolitzer

“But I can say that if you’re a writer who happens to be a woman, you’ll get a book cover that depicts a woman…

— Lauren Groff

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on…

— Adriana Trigiani

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it…

— Rachel Cusk

When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled…

— Lionel Shriver

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

— Catherine Gaskin

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

— Ken Follett

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

— William Gibson

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have…

— Lisa Jewell