Book Quote by Rachel Kushner

I'm happy to be a woman but much of it was learned over the course of life. Really thudded into me. You learn it.…

— Rachel Kushner

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

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women…

— Emma Donoghue

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more…

— Jennifer Weiner

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright

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

“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

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of…

— Rose Tremain

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