Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
ideas wings nails
Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.
art intimacy difficult
Intimacy is a difficult art ...
jealousy passion mankind
jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind ...
writing garden rose
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.
letters our-time
The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.
looks littles pavement
Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.
book character eye
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.
feelings perception brain
The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.
poetry poet beacons-of-light
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
moving moments
Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.
beauty loveliness
loveliness is infernally sad.
lonely communication journey
letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
connections emotion
old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.
two imagination facts
Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.