There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf. . . who's afraid of living life without false illusions.
I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But for me, I don't think I could write a plot without sex happening somewhere.
At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters. "
I got into dialogue because my parents began taking me to see plays from when I was very young. Too young, often, to understand the play I was watching: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf when I was nine years old; That Championship Season when I was ten years old. But I loved the sound of dialogue; it sounded like music to me and I wanted to imitate that sound.
A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face. . . It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this. It was invented for people like Virginia Woolf and Nick Drake. And Me. Suicide was supposed to be cool.
Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends. . . Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly delineated, and more true to life. For me, Glass [finds] in three repeated notes something of [a] rapture of sameness.
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
