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
book writing joy
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.
speech torn casts
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
mean numbers people
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
art writing divine
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
problem poet lays
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
world tyranny connected
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
hate plies three
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
writing use littles
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
art silence facts
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.
honesty mean imagination
... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.
world comfort this-world
What a comfort is friendship in this world.
fighting bird rifles
scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.
clothes symbols
Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
inspirational pain women
Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.