Believe Quote by Rose Tremain

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

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same…

— Lulu Wang

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 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

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters…

— Alice Hoffman

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to…

— Tate Taylor

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 try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen…

— J. J. Abrams

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

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

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

— Elisabeth Moss