Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no... - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

"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."

"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."

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

"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."