Fiction Quote by Nora Roberts

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed…

— Simone de Beauvoir

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

— George Jean Nathan

I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys, it's, like,…

— Gillian Flynn

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers…

— Justine Musk

“Why is it that women are the only ones who will write perfect men into fiction? It's strange. If a man portrayed his fictional…

— Rachel Heffington

“If you're a hero you can be an idiot, behave badly, ruin your personal life, have any number of mistresses and talk about yourself…

— Jeanette Winterson

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the…

— Ken Follett