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

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

"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible."

"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."

"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."

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