About Quote by Neve McIntosh

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

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

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

— Cheryl Strayed

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as…

— Donald Margulies

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

— Sudha Murty

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has…

— Linda Woolverton

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying…

— Kate Braverman

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to be scooped…

— Karin Slaughter

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub