You’ll doubtless be shocked to know that I’m in the midst of original fiction for this website. Standalone, even! In the meantime, here are more quotes I’ve saved with Book Darts of late:

“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.” – Dr. Maturin on friendship, Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain

“Have you any notion of how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Unfortunately, it is precisely the men or women of genius who mind most what is said of them.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.” – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, also quoted in Eco’s Six Walks in the Fictional Wood