Set free Quote by Michael Holroyd

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

— Sylvia Plath

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

“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

“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

“She was familiar with this immaterial hunger. There had been times when her entire life had seemed characterized by this craving. By this compelling,…

— Cynthia Rogers Parks

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

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's a mystery, a cipher, something nearly extinct these days: a person not controlled by ambition or greed or a crass need for attention,…

— Rebecca Miller

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

“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

“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick