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There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

— Sam Abell

Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so…

— Joyce Carol Oates

As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.

— Edward Hirsch

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

“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

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer's…

— Victoria Glendinning

“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works of Virginia…

— Jane Goldman

“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day. Fragile she…

— May Sarton

“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

“The 1980s: feminism, postmodernism, sexual/textual politics While it might be tempting to generalise that Woolf ’s writing was being discussed almost in two separate…

— Jane Goldman

“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