Virginia woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.