Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have min... - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

"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."

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

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."

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