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I write characters. Some of those characters are women.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

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

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

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