Woolf Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual. — Rita Mae Brown
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival. — Rebecca West
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. — Rod Laver
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
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read. — Lucinda Riley
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
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
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
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
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
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
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf
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
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
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
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
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year. — Ian Mcewan
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland

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