Books Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

— Sergio Leone

Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start…

— Robert Giroux

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.

— Cara Delevingne

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you…

— Kevin Brockmeier

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

— Edith Sitwell

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

— Rebecca West

“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

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog.…

— Lily Koppel

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

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

— Alison Bechdel