The Greatest Stories Have Yet To Be Written
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature. – P. G. Wodehouse, ‘Strychnine in the Soup’
Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read. – Doris Lessing, interview with Amanda Craig, The Times, 2003