Susanna Moore Quotes

In the past, I was sometimes put in this women's lit category, and I was never really sure that was the appropriate place for me - although I certainly recognize it can be helpful and correct for other people.

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.

I've been kinda fascinated by misfits, outcasts, and downtrodden people. I've identified with them. 'Blade Runner' probably got me more work than any. It convinced some producers that I could play something other than a rural crazy, I guess.

Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.

I don't think my first book was chick lit.

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

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

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

I know that there's a cultural expectation that women be nurturing, delicate flowers. And I am. So delicate. But that doesn't mean I can't write a good, gory murder scene.

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

People have all these preconceptions about me. Whereas if you look at the roles, Henry Hill was the nicest guy in 'Goodfellas!' I was a nice guy too in the comedy 'Heartbreakers.' And I was a really sweet father to Johnny Depp in 'Blow!'

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

Chick lit was amazing, and I was thrilled to be part of it.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level.

My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out comedies, such as the 'Shopaholic' series.

The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.