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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.