Sarah Greene Quotes

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I love stories about women.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

I only want to write books and movies about women.

I'm grateful to women who have the privilege and ability to tell their stories and applaud them for doing that. And also recognize that there are many, many women in this country who will never have that opportunity.

I really love stories about women.

I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

Telling women's stories is really important.

I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

You can't write if you don't read.

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.