Quote of the Day (Virginia Woolf, on Reviews)

“What is the use of saying one is indifferent to reviews when positive praise, though mingled with blame, gives one such a start on, that instead of feeling dried up, one feels, on the contrary, flooded with ideas?”—Virginia Woolf, diary entry for May 11, 1927, six days after publication of her To the Lighthouse, in A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts fromthe Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Leonard Woolf (1973)