Character Quote by Sriram Raghavan

I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make…

— Sriram Raghavan

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

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 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'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a…

— Barbara Crampton

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

— Elisabeth Moss

We need to humanize women instead of making the idea of a woman be so stigmatized. That's what's interesting to me as a writer…

— Clea DuVall

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story…

— Joan D. Vinge

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

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or…

— William Least Heat-Moon

I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.

— Danielle Macdonald