Finnish Quote by Toni Jerrman

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

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

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

— Marge Piercy

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

— Tracy Pollan

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by…

— Laurie Foos

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

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

— Stieg Larsson

I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.

— Kate Zambreno

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

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

— Vera Farmiga

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian

For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers,…

— Jessica Chastain