Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do i... - Virginia Woolf

"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"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."

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

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world."