Book Quote by William Gibson

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect…

— William Gibson

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

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen…

— J. J. Abrams

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

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

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films…

— Gal Gadot

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when…

— Meg Cabot

I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created…

— Lily James

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to…

— Tate Taylor

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery…

— Ken Follett

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten.…

— Ophelia Lovibond