"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners."
-- Virginia Woolf"The moment was all; the moment was enough."
-- Virginia Woolf"Everything is relevant; everything is related."
-- Virginia Woolf"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
-- Virginia Woolf"Rigidity is death; conformity is death."
-- Virginia Woolf"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
-- Virginia Woolf"Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others."
-- Virginia Woolf"A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living."
-- Virginia Woolf"I write to find out what I know."
-- Virginia Woolf"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
-- Virginia Woolf"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
-- Virginia Woolf"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
-- Virginia Woolf"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."
-- Virginia Woolf"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."
-- Virginia Woolf"I am rooted, but I flow."
-- Virginia Woolf"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
-- Virginia Woolf"You must be prepared to work always without applause."
-- Ernest Hemingway"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
-- Ernest Hemingway"If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows..."
-- Ernest Hemingway"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
-- Ernest Hemingway"To do a great right, do a little wrong."
-- William Shakespeare"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
-- William Shakespeare"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."
-- William Shakespeare"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."
-- William Shakespeare
