“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
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can… — Garth Greenwell 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
Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me. — Cecil Beaton 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
Come on, man… Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published. — Paul Giamatti 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
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
“She sighed, she snored, not that she was asleep, only drowsy and heavy, drowsy and heavy, like a field of clover in… — Virginia Woolf 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've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own… — Lena Dunham 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
Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as… — Jonathan Raban 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
“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
“Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range… — Jane Goldman 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
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson 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
“Nonfiction has crept closer to fiction in our time in ways that are not flattering to fiction, in part because too many… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as… — 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
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
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters." — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
