«En primer lloc, vull emfatitzar el signe d'interrogació del meu títol. Encara que pogués respondre la pregunta pel meu compte, la resposta només se m'aplicaria a mi, i no pas a vosaltres. L'únic consell, de fet, que una persona pot donar a una altra sobre la lectura és que no es deixi aconsellar, que segueixi el seu propi instint, que utilitzi el seu sentit comú, que arribi a les seves pròpies conclusions».
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."