Diaries Quote by Sam Abell

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

— Sylvia Plath

“Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia…

— Tracie Podger

“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

“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

“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

Like all her friends, I miss her greatly...But...I am sure there is no case for lamentation...Virginia Woolf got through an immense amount of work,…

— E. M. Forster

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

— Rebecca Solnit

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 admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine,…

— Susan Glaspell

“The 1950s and 1960s: philosophy, psychology, myth There was considerable critical interest in Woolf ’s life and work in this period, fuelled by the…

— Jane Goldman

“Often we feel the need to say that a book isn’t just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit.…

— Will Schwalbe

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

— Rebecca West