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Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own
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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.”