Women Writers On Writing Quotes

#1. Name?" the desk clerk said to me politely, her pencil poised.
"Name," I said vaguely. I remembered, and told her.
"Age?" she asked. "Sex? Occupation?"
"Writer," I said.
"Housewife," she said.
"Writer," I said.
"I'll just put down housewife," she said.

Shirley Jackson

#2. One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

Alessandra Stanley

#3. We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Lorrie Moore

#5. Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

Bette Davis

#6. People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking."

Dave Barry

#7. Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.

Chloe Thurlow

#8. And now we who are writing women and strange monsters
Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers,
Still hope that we may learn to lay our hands
More gently and more subtly on the burning sands.

May Sarton

#9. I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people
men and women alike
could go on to happier, more productive lives.

Richard Ford

#10. Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

Gillian Flynn

#11. Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

Sigmund Freud

#12. Women's fiction doesn't sound like anything but a slur to my ears.

Sheila Heti

#13. If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have.

Sarah Elwell

#14. I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

Horace Walpole

#15. I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.

Pat Conroy

#16. Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.

Peter Brooks

#17. A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!

Avijeet Das

#18. Everywhere the poems open.

Mary Kinzie

#19. Can you be inside and outside at the same time?
I think this is where I live.
I think this is where most women live.
I know this is where writers live.
Inside to write. Outside to glean.

Terry Tempest Williams

#20. I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved - I suppose - deviously. I mean I didn't actually let too many people know what I was doing.

Joan Didion

#21. I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Paul Auster

#22. Before there were books, we read each other.

Lisa Cron

#23. I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me.

Jeanette Winterson

#24. What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.

Kathleen Turner

#25. I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

#26. Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits!

Airam

#27. Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.

Roman Payne

#28. Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

Lisa Cron

#29. Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.

Louise Gluck

#30. In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them.

Pat Conroy

#31. I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies; women who have faced the storms of life!

Because my life has always been about the thrill with the raging storms!

Avijeet Das

#32. Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Anton Chekhov

#33. If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.

Lisa Cron

#34. You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

Nava Atlas

#35. Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family.

Kamala Suraiyya Das

#36. My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Michael Patrick King

#37. While there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

Joyce Carol Oates

#38. Intuition is truth.

A.D. Posey

#39. If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Baby Halder

#40. Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

Coco J. Ginger