“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.
— Margaret Atwood, from Negotiating with the Dead; “Introduction: Into the Labyrinth,” (via woolfdaily)
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
— Virginia Woolf (via quotemadness)
