Masculine Writing Quotes

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think, ultimately an insulting one. It's as insulting to men as it is to women. I'm not sure what masculine writing would look like - I assume some combination of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. Writing can't be gendered in that way.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

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