Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was ofte... - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

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

"Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream."

"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."