Quotes About Writing

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

I don't have anger towards women. It's the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It's told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.

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 that men do.

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.