Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly per... - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"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."
"For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
"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."