Virginia-woolf Quote by David Markson

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that,…

— Michael Cunningham

“When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from…

— Miriam Toews

“And just now I pick up the blessed diary of Virginia Woolf which I bought with a battery of her novels Saturday with Ted.…

— Sylvia Plath

“To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of her own. ....” I…

— Elisabeth Eaves

“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

“Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures…

— Virginia Woolf

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“Don't get me started on the term literary fiction. I think the idea is that there are some books who know how to order…

— Keir Graff