Alive Quote by Virginia Woolf

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

“America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward it, not…

— Emil Cioran

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think that fiction has a certain power.

— Jesmyn Ward

“She who can paint a masterpiece or write a book that will influence millions deserves the plaudits and admiration of mankind. But she who…

— David O. McKay

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

— Michael Cunningham