Authorship Quote by Rebecca Solnit

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

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

Women are books, and men the readers be...

— Benjamin Franklin

There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that would be…

— Rupi Kaur

“I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Subcomandante Marcos,…

— Rebecca Solnit

“...I do write books that are female oriented. In my books, the female characters are always searching for something and they often find it,…

— Shireen Dodson

“Books are like women, all more or less have the same form, buts its the intricacies of whats inside that makes them special!”

— Dave Alexander Ramos me

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying…

— Cassandra Clare

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

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

I don't think women are interesting enough to merit a book. They're more of a pamphlet sex.

— Alex Linder

I've had people say very dismissive things about my books, but I also feel like I probably have more readers because I'm a woman.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld