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“The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a moment and…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended differently.”

— Benjamin Percy

“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me—that a person may be ultrasensitive and not warm. She…

— May Sarton

“I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like…

— Alison Bechdel

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“Yey more and more there seemed a bevy of things she was not supposed to think about and by virtue of trying not to,…

— Judith Ivory

“She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite…

— Terry Pratchett

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

— Cecil Beaton

“But other times, I'd find her staring at the typewriter with something that could only be described as hate.”

— Steve Cushman

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine,…

— Susan Glaspell

“To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would…

— Neal Stephenson