Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published. — Paul Giamatti 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 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
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions. — Edward Albee 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
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
“Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome… — Kamand Kojouri 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
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar… — J. G. Ballard 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
In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made… — Haskell Wexler 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
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
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
“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland 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
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing:… — Anne Lamott 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
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
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