I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
'The Fugitive Kind,' 'Rope,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - I watched all these as a way of reminding myself that you… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I think there's much more privileging of the new in art. I think people want to think they privilege the new in… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Aside from being famous, what do Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Van Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Robin Williams, Sylvia Plath, Balzac,… — B.A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. —VIRGINIA WOOLF In” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. — Rod Laver Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read. — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
“Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a… — Gwendoline Christie 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
I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“She was so far absorbed in this work, for it was really difficult to find how all these sounds should stand together,… — Nicole Arlyn Copy Share Image
“I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
“It was Coleridge, a compulsive book scribbler, who first called it marginalia. Lamb would lend books to Coleridge, and they would come… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
“I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“People will point to books written about women, by men, and books written by women, and say, ‘Tell me, what is the… — Shireen Dodson Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence comes simply because I have… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
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