Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own

Quotes

• “Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook...”
• “For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinki...”
• “So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours...”
• “Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's p...”
• “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
• “Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
• “It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”
• “Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
• “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
• “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
• “Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”