Chairs Quote by Lucinda Riley

“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 coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that…

— Anita Valle

“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 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

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

— Sylvia Plath

“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

“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

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of…

— Charlotte Bronte

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

...she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some…

— Toni Morrison

“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