Bloomsbury Quote by Richard Davenport-Hines

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

— David Mikics

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

— Rebecca Solnit

“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they do. Writers…

— Daniel Kemp

“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

“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of…

— Ray Bradbury

“A writer's life and work are not a gift to humankind; they are its necessity.”

— Toni Morrison

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

“Writer: It's not an occupation; it's a compulsion.”

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

“The writer is always working on a book, even when not writing.”

— Antonio Callado

“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.”

— Walter Benjamin