“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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
“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be… — Virginia Woolf 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
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — 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
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I've just stopped talking to you. It seems so strange. It's perfectly peaceful here--they're playing bowls--I'd just put flowers in your room.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Clive with his tongue well-loosened, imagine my horror when he suddenly said, 'I wonder if I dare ask Vita a very indiscreet… — Vita Sackville-West 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
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
“But Orlando was a woman — Lord Palmerston had just proved it. And when we are writing the life of a woman,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
“Vita has been twice. She is doomed to go to Persia; and I mind the thought so much (thinking to lose sight… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“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
![“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude. You see that I am extremely sentimental. Had you suspected that?” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/378/vita-sackville-west-4366_letters_you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all_452775.jpg)
![“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still far from well, and she has lots of lessons to do. Leonard is coming on Saturday [...] Please don't think that a) I shall fall in love with Virginia b) Virginia will fall in love with…” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/64f/vita-sackville-west-4366_fall-in-love_virginia-is-an-exquisite-companion-and-i_1353409.jpg)
