"Come indoors then, and open the books..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.”

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”

“For nothing was simply one thing.”

“I have read your book, and I disapprove.”

“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

“The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.”