“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF” — Natalie Dykstra Copy Share Image
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in… — Freja Beha Erichsen Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I'm told I am over-choosy, and I shocked everybody by doing Jeffrey Archer. I did that to annoy everybody; sometimes, between Medea… — Eileen Atkins Copy Share Image
Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me… — Robert Giroux Copy Share Image
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us.… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters 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
“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Patrick Swayze was in an acting class with me. We were working on Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf together, and there was… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“To quote Virginia Woolf, “If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Throughout much of history, women writers have capitulated to male standards, and have paid too much heed to what Virginia Woolf calls… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“There are numerous biographies of Woolf. Biography has been highly influential in shaping the reception ofWoolf ’s work, and her life has… — Jane Goldman 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
“The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy, psychology, myth There was considerable critical interest in Woolf ’s life and work in this period, fuelled… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics There has never been a better time to study Virginia Woolf. Woolf studies,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Marriage, in short, is a bargain, like buying a house or entering a profession. One chooses it knowing that, by that very… — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all… — Deirdre McCloskey Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“It’s like I have this demon inside of me, and I want it gone, but the idea of removing it via pill… — John Green Copy Share Image
