“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

“Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.”

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”