Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse >>

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. >>

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigiou >>

Quotations about Fiction

Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few >>

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundatio >>

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across th >>

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

Woolf, Virginia