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“but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

“Art imitates nature, but does not copy it.”
― Ritchie Robertson, Goethe: A Very Short Introduction

“One must strain off what was personal and accidental in all these impressions and so reach the pure fluid, the essential oil of truth.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

“Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition