Writers-on-writing Quote by Sheila Heti

“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

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

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

I enjoy women's conversation, and I think that helps me to describe them in fiction.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

“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

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's…

— Jillian Medoff

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch

“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens…

— Siri Hustvedt