“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.” — Bonnie Huie Copy Share Image
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.” — Virginia Woolf 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
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 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
I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim 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
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
There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about.… — Lily Koppel 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
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
I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down… — Gwendoline Christie 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
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
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
“[On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she… — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
“Woolf turned her back on a number of tokens of her rising eminence in the 1930s, including an offer of the Companion… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Not so long ago, I spent a period in New York City, that teeming island of gneiss and concrete and glass, inhabiting… — Olivia Laing 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
“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf said, speaking from the perspective of the writer, that there’s no such thing, objectively, as a good or a bad… — Joanna Kavenna 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
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman 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
“The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“She looked at Woolf. "There's some kind of ...thing." "That sentence wasn't as helpful as you probably intended it to be," said… — Dan Wells 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
“He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real… — Lily King Copy Share Image
In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf,… — Paul Laffoley 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
It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. - Virginia Woolf” — Mitchell Kynock 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
I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf once wrote: “To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for… — Nick van der Leek Copy Share Image
![“[On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly upon the unknown: and for her the unknown was frequently the commonplace.” quote by Michael Holroyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/719/michael-holroyd-71430_set-free_on-virginia-woolf-craving-to-be-set-free_1113132.jpg)
![“In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a34/paul-laffoley-7077_lovecraft_in-other-words-h-p-lovecraft-was-areligi_2293724.jpg)
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