Century Quote by Siri Hustvedt

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

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

— Chris O'Dowd

I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

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

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

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

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

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

“Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented they were...Any…

— Lynn Povich