“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
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
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour. VIRGINIA WOOLF, THE WAVES” — John Seabrook 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
“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
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
“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
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
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Tracie Podger Copy Share Image
“I trace the map of other people's lives like an English cartographer, but I am not Virginia Woolf; no one in my… — Yvette Walker 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“It is not just a human rights argument, it is the Warren Buffett argument and the Christine Lagarde argument: Countries that want… — Jenny Nordberg 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was wrong. You do not need a room of your own to write. — Julia Glass 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
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.” — Bonnie Huie Copy Share Image
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
