Like a Virginia Woolf. When you refer it to a thing... "it" being the idea of the singularity of the subject, in the case of Virginia... Therefore if you happen to, you are talking of the what of Virginia Woolf, her socially classified lifeless qualities. While if you refer it to a human, you are talking of the who, the character of her.
I don't want to be Virginia Woolf because we have ourselves to be. We have our own unique standpoint. But how I wish I can have her writing skills though - it is not just skills... it is the nature that's in her skills. The nature of Virginia Woolf.