Woman Writer Quotes

I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

I'm a writer first and a woman after.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

A woman who writes feels too much.

Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

Even 'Posham Pa' is written by a woman so it's a perspective which I empathise with more.

It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being. They don't really - they seldom nail it. It takes a woman to write a really good female character. I like that.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

Few writers can rival Helen Fielding when it comes to fully capturing the modern woman.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Not only is it OK for a woman to write about a tough guy, but it might even help sell him.

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.