"For books continue each other, in spite..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”

“Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.”

“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.”

“In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.”

“If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate.”

“If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free”

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”

“Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.”

“One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.”