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

"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."

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

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

"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."