Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him,” Woolf proclaims. “Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.” — David Mikics Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was a lesbian—or maybe she was just a woman writer.” — Bonnie Huie Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
“Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.” — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
“Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works… — Tracie Podger 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
“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
“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very… — Steve Kazee 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
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
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
“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
“It is important to recognise Woolf ’s acknowledgement of her father’s dually formative influence. The domestic dictator was also an intellectual who… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf observes that "the two Alices are not books for children; they are the only books in which we become children…… — Carolyn Sigler Copy Share Image
“Woolf criticism has not evolved smoothly, and it would be misleading to say that any one approach or interpretation has ever prevailed… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
'Basic Black with Pearls' contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Stephen's work does not call out to him in this way. It does not speak to him of secrets and stories. He… — Maya Lang 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
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
“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because… — Rosemarie Garland Thomson Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf was two years older than Virginia, whom he had first met in 1901 in the rooms of her brother Thoby… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. — Ian Mcewan 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
In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
Come on, man… Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published. — Paul Giamatti 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
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