• to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

    Virginia Woolf: to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
    Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage