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
affair illusion
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
fire tragedy heroic
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
vision written
It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.
art hands bridges
You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind ...
heart hands fire
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.
years age three
We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.
lovely world goodness
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
running dog flower
No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
sweet dust tree
But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.
past choices age
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
nice two age
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
writing thinking persons
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
war men games
war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.