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
imagination my-imagination
Women alone stir my imagination ...
art believe skills
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
writing tired lord
Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
book writing discovery
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
hard-work writing pages
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
writing knows know-how
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
wall writing bricks
Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...
simple men animal
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
book order feet
Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.
passion writing gone
There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
hate writing letters
As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.
country air giving
... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
believe expression dont-believe
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.
believe drawing people
As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.