Virginia Quote by David Markson

“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

— Alison Bechdel

“I argue that it is not Woolf's remoteness that puts people off but her nearness that terrifies them. Her language is not a woolly…

— Jeanette Winterson

“But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series of rapid…

— Sylvia Plath

“How many people have I heard claim their children as the greatest accomplishment and comfort of their lives? It's the thing they can always…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend Vita Sackville-West,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget…

— Virginia Woolf

“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity…

— China Miéville

“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my…

— Felicity Jones

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the…

— David Lowery