‘These are short story writers and novelists. I write biography, social history and memoir and yet I have learned from them all; factual writing borrowing some of fiction’s clothes.’
You might also like:
‘Virginia Woolf’s fiction explores the inner lives of intelligent women with courage and originality; she searched for, and found, a way of telling a story that was different.’
‘Virginia used to impress and inspire me to write well; to choose every word for its power and beauty. Now she inspires me simply to to write.’
‘Most of the Victorians I loved have lost their shine too, for me, except George Eliot; her luminous sense of justice and vision distinguish her. ‘