“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)
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