"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."
"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, nobody can say."
"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."
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."