Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is…

— Virginia Woolf

“What were the conditions in which women lived, I asked myself; for fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon…

— Virginia Woolf

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“In the end, Spider and I were going to be forever linked. Serendipity.”

— Julie Hockley

“Here you've been, a spider in the corner, observing, weaving Charlotte's web of mystery.”

— Shannon Hale

“For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.”

— Jeremias Gotthelf

“Fiction is life by design.”

— Mary Kittredge

“Spider was circumscribed by spider ideas; its universe was spider universe. All outside was irrational, extraneous, at best raw material for spider. As I…

— Loren Eiseley

“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes…

— Airambooksie

“fiction is both artifice and verisimilitude, and that there is nothing difficult in holding together these two possibilities.”

— James Wood

“When man has reached the periphery of the spiderweb of his own reason and logic, he can find the ropes of revelation upon which…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all…

— Joseph Conrad