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With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

— Louis Sachar

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

— John le Carre

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

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— William Gibson

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

— Eli Roth

I really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

— Michael Lehmann

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

— Hannah Murray

I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

— John Allison

I write characters. Some of those characters are women.

— Greg Rucka

Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What's difficult is to play feminine.

— Cillian Murphy

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been very lucky with the roles that I've played in that they were wonderful roles for women. They're incredible, flawed characters that I really gravitate toward. I just never want anybody to be able to put me in a box.

— Anya Taylor-Joy