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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Women Writers Quotes

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