Diary Quote by Miranda July

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

— Marguerite Duras

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

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

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

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

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

— Parvathy

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

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that…

— Molly Ringwald

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

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

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson