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Fiction Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and…
- I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
- The truer the facts the better the fiction.
- Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely…
- Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art…
- Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
- Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
- A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction
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