Editors Quote by V. S. Naipaul

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of…

— Marjorie M. Liu

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

In the publishing world, most editors are probably women. So I don't see the publishing world as a male-dominated one, especially within fiction.

— Emma Donoghue

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

— Meg Wolitzer

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed…

— Jonathan Meades

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my…

— Emma McLaughlin

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have…

— Lisa Jewell

Margot [Hentoff] used to write regularly for The Voice, for The New York Review of Books, for Harper's Bazaar, and she really had the…

— Nat Hentoff

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off…

— Jonathan Coe

I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

— Frederick Busch

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon