Books Quote by Maya Lang

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

— Rebecca Solnit

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

— Sylvia Plath

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of their blunt,…

— Radclyffe Hall

“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

“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

“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 was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a…

— Julia Quinn

“But life could not be lived between the pages of a romance novel.”

— Barbara Bell

“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

“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle