Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do…

“Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia…

— Tracie Podger

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog.…

— Lily Koppel

“Virginia Woolf said, speaking from the perspective of the writer, that there’s no such thing, objectively, as a good or a bad novel, there’s…

— Joanna Kavenna

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well,…

— Michael Cunningham

“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. - Virginia Woolf”

— Mitchell Kynock

“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken…

— Sigrid Undset

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's…

— Lena Dunham

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my…

— Felicity Jones

“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

— Alison Bechdel

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the…

— David Lowery

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own…

— Scott Westerfeld

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

— Sergio Leone