Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real…

— Philippa Gregory

“Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and”

— Virginia Woolf

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

— Edna Longley

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)”

— Anonymous

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for literature. Books…

— Steve Almond

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out…

— Jonathan Swift

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong