To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions — there we have none.


The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)

Virginia Woolf Quotes

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon...

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon...

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon...

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon...