Diaries Quote by Sam Abell

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you…

— Michael Palin

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well,…

— Michael Cunningham

“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. - Virginia Woolf”

— Mitchell Kynock

“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken…

— Sigrid Undset

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's…

— Lena Dunham

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

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my…

— Felicity Jones

“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.”

— Alison Bechdel

“Isn’t it odd how much more one sees in a photograph than in real life? —VIRGINIA WOOLF”

— Natalie Dykstra

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the…

— David Lowery