I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.
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.
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.
James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.
I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
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.