Books Quote by Garth Greenwell

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him,” Woolf proclaims. “Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.”

— David Mikics

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition…

— Alain de Botton

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

At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about…

— David Duchovny

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for the…

— Tracie Podger

“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

“It is important to recognise Woolf ’s acknowledgement of her father’s dually formative influence. The domestic dictator was also an intellectual who powerfully shaped…

— Jane Goldman

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

— Maurizio Sarri

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow…

— Samuel West

I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow…

— Samuel West

“To quote Virginia Woolf, “If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Do not dictate to…

— Pamela Paul