Female Author Quotes

#1. To the distinguished female author's left was her husband, probably also distinguished in some way, who had the look of many husbands: eyebrows perpetually raised a little in a defensive mask of polite interest, signifying boredom.

Ben Lerner

#2. It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Lisa Gardner

#3. change. Eddie saw the leper, the mummy, the bird; he saw the werewolf, and a vampire whose teeth were Gillette Blue-Blades set at crazy angles like mirrors

Stephen King

#4. The greatest things in life all require commitment, sacrifice, some struggle and hardship. It's not easy. But absolutely worth it.

Robin Sharma

#5. AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I love antiheroes. Female characters who don't just accept their faults, but downright exploit them.

No nice boys.
No shame.

Lime Craven

#6. Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.

Dita Von Teese

#7. In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.

Barbara Demick

#8. In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

Erica Jong

#9. Next time! In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Helen Hunt Jackson

#10. Men may consider a female like a book and try judging her by the cover but she is not the book but the author of the destiny of mankind.

Amit Abraham

#11. Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.

R.A. Salvatore

#12. You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Maggie Young

#13. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#14. - this is where I live now. If you had known me
once, you'd still know me now though in a different
light and life. This is no place you ever knew me.

Adrienne Rich

#15. Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.

M.J. Rose

#16. But in the end he didn't love her enough to fight for her.

Nicole Mones

#17. [Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.

Denis Dutton

#18. In general, her family wasn't very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling

Holly Black

#19. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

William Hazlitt