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It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical...more

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are tryi...more

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I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

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Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

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What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice ...more

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And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour...more

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The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is...more

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I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of th...more

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They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifte...more

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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and...more