Greg Rucka Quotes

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

It's a tough thing to work with two different genders. You've gotta learn how to talk to women and talk to guys.

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

I believe in the difference between men and women. In fact, I embrace the difference.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

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

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

The distinction between male and female will never stop existing. We are not alike, and I wouldn't want to be.

Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.

Boys and girls are not the same.

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.

I do not have the female experience. I don't, and I strive to understand it, but I'll never truly be able to. I don't think any men will, really.

I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters.

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

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