Virginia Woolf — "I am not in the least modest. I think I am rather arrogant. I think I am rather …"

"I am a great deal interested suddenly in my book. I want to bring in the despicableness of people like Ott. I want to give the slipperiness of the soul."

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order."

"To write a good letter, you must have a good mind."

"I am not an Englishwoman. I am a Jewess. I am a woman. I am a writer. I am a human being. I am a creative artist. I am a person who loves life and hates death."

"I am reading Six of One by Mrs. W. K. Clifford. It is about a girl who falls in love with her brother. She is quite mad, but then so are all women."