Donna Tartt Quotes

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

I'm not involved with the female world.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women.

J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there that are headlined by men and say, 'It's a male-oriented film.'

History is told through the eyes of men about men.

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

As men, we can never fully understand the experience women go through.

Lekha Washington is a very successful, award-winning product designer, and her company has made some fantastic products in the past few years. Comments from some men calling her 'failure' makes me laugh, really.

What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption that because you're female, you must write in a certain way. I don't understand why that is - it is a bit demeaning.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

The one that sticks out in my mind and has all along was the New York Times piece on Melania Trump.Calling her a mannequin and a trophy wife, which if anybody had ever said that about any - Michelle Obama was a lawyer. But Melania Trump has been a successful businesswoman. She speaks several languages. A mannequin and a trophy wife and it was just - fine, they were allowed to say that about her.