Adriana Trigiani Quotes

Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.

I don't write a lot of fiction.

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.

There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.