“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Isa let her sewing drop. The great hooded chairs had become enormous. And Giles too. And Isa too against the window. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“I think she is one of the most mentally exciting people I know. She hates the wishy-washiness of Bloomsbury young men. We… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Feelings that would not have disgraced a leader who, now that the snow has begun to fall and the mountain-top is covered… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image