# Quote — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

> Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.

- Author: [Virginia Woolf](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf.md)
- Book: [A Room of One's Own](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own.md)
- Page: 43
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#A_Room_of_One's_Own_(1929)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/fiction-is-like

## More from this book

> The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/the-beauty-of-the.md)

> For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/for-it-needs.md)

> Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virginia-woolf/a-room-of-ones-own/women-have-served.md)