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

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

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

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

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.