Selected Diaries

Her nephew Quentin Bell claims that the thirty volumes of Woolf's diary are a masterpiece.Anne Olivier Bell has reduced them to a single volume. It think it is still a masterpiece

A.S. Byatt, Evening Standard

One of the glories of our literature

Paul Levy

She made portraits exact, more clairvoyant, more living than those of any writer I know

P.N. Furbank

A work of the highest imaginative genius, with powers of perception and description unexampled in our time

Isaiah Berlin

More alive than most living voices

Claire Tomalin

I stick by the old heresy, that Woolf’s diary is her greatest achievement. An enthrallingly uncensored portrait of a brilliantly perceptive mind as it moves through a fascinating world in complex times

Alan Hollinghurst, New York Times