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.

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,...

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them,...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to...

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

A woman must have money and a room of her own.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by...