Woolf Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
— Rebecca West
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An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
— Rod Laver
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on…
— Dan Chaon
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She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
— Lucinda Riley
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like…
— Lalla Ward
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As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's…
— Keegan Allen
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Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is…
— Michael Cunningham
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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the…
— Michael Cunningham
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Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high…
— Michael Cunningham
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When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill…
— Steve Kazee
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
— Leonard Woolf
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I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as…
— Stephen Fry
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to…
— Anne Lamott
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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf…
— David Mamet
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
— Ian Mcewan
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My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
— Kiefer Sutherland
Who Wrote These Woolf Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 31 Woolf Quotes, led by these top contributors: