Men Quote by Nahnatchka Khan

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

— Jim Harrison

Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they…

— Kathryn Hughes

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

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

— Marguerite Duras

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

— Michelle Tea

Certainly, not all trans people like my writing.

— Torrey Peters

I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.

— Jeanette Winterson

I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer,"…

— Emma Donoghue

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

— Lauren Faust

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

I don't think of gay writers. I mean if you were to say to me who are the straight writers, well, you wouldn't ask…

— Joe Mantello

Few writers in history have ever been 'politically correct' (a notion that rapidly changes in any case), and there's no reason to imagine that…

— Edmund White