Book Quote by William Least Heat-Moon

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

— Rain Dove

My idea is to write a story where every character is well etched out, irrespective of their gender. Because they all are human beings…

— Sriram Raghavan

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

— William Gibson

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 look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Subcomandante Marcos,…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character.…

— Elmore Leonard

“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't…

— Geena Davis

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels…

— Anne Bronte

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying…

— Cassandra Clare