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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

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

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.