Believe Quote by Nora Roberts

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

I think one of the great joys of being a writer is you can transcend everything, even your own sex, what century you live…

— Rebecca Miller

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

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able…

— Marisha Pessl

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

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only…

— 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

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men.…

— Mike O'Malley

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same…

— Lauren Groff

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic…

— Tobias Wolff

I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to…

— Jenny Han