It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. – Virginia Woolf
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. – Virginia Woolf
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers. – Virginia Woolf
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. – Virginia Woolf
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley