“I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.” ThinkingWritingFirstsCharacterStoriesWantedNextStrongNovelFemaleDecidedFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Joan D. Vinge
“Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.” PeopleWayCharacterDifficultNovelJourneyFemaleImpactFeaturesUndertakingsProtagonistsPersonal Journey Author:Juliet Marillier
“It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.” ThinkingMenWayWritingBelieveHas BeensStoriesI BelieveNovelWrittenTheoryFemaleMalesAbsurdMasculineCould Have BeenJaneAusten Author:Robert Silverberg
“If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.” IfsMeanCharacterNovelDeserveFemaleFlowMales Author:Jane Smiley
“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 novels are females.” BookCharacterFeelingsEmotionNovelStrangeAreasFemaleExpertsMain CharactersEmotions Feelings Author:Isabel Allende
“Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.” SeemsRomancePowerfulFantasyNovelFemaleRomantic LoveRomance Novel Author:Melissa Pritchard
“I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel "feminist" simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.” NeedsFeelsMindLittlesDoeCharacterStrongInterestingNovelFeminismFemaleEmbraceFeministFemale Characters Author:Laurie Foos
“It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school. It got me thinking, 'Well, what are some novels that are about female sexual psychopaths? I really didn't have many references for that, and I felt like that was a void in transgressive literature that I wanted to fill.'” ThinkingKnowsWellsWantedSchoolTurnsLiteratureFeltNovelOne DayNewsHigh SchoolFemaleShockHallsVoidTurn-onPsychopath Author:Alissa Nutting
“It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.” MenCharacterHappensNovelDemandMajorsFemalePrejudiceNarrativeRunnersDiscomfortFemale CharactersKites Author:Khaled Hosseini
“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 the editors are women, and these are books written for the female gaze. And so my point of view - the way I looked at fandom and publishing and writing - was all about women. So for me that's what was natural, that's what was comfortable. And then I moved over to comics. And all of a sudden it was... Pardon the expression, it was a sausage fest.” WritingBookRomanceNaturalNovelFemaleMovedPoint Of ViewPublishingRomance Novel Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.” WritingSometimesPainAsksNovelBabyFemaleCompareNovelistsHaving A Baby Author:Salman Rushdie
“The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.” MenWorldCountryFormLiteratureHalfNovelGenerationsDogStyleFemalePressesPopulationGreat MenBitesArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisThis GenerationFree PressProminenceWorld Literature Author:James Buchan
“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.” HumansBookEarthRomanceWinningNovelDangerousReaderCreaturesFemaleMalesCelebrateKneesGentlenessRomance NovelFemale Power Book:Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Source: Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
“Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.” CharacterNovelFemaleDesertFemale CharactersLifelessSweet Tooth Author:Ian Mcewan