I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems... - Virginia Woolf

"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"

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."

"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

"To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away..."

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