Baffled Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

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

“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves”

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“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

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for…

— Don DeLillo

“Virginia Woolf said, speaking from the perspective of the writer, that there’s no such thing, objectively, as a good or a bad novel, there’s…

— Joanna Kavenna

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia…

— Tracie Podger

Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work,…

— E. M. Forster

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

— Garth Greenwell

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“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