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
sunshine fog weather
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
choices living-my-life
It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
two silence chaos
Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.
chaos longing
Only longing can fill with more of itself.
darkness chaos
How can I express the darkness?
art women men
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
death men giving
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
slumber fiction burning
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
quality illness mystic
In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
reading delight chiefs
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
inspiring war empowering
War is not women's history.
father wish complacency
I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.
healing hands perfect
A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
witty night years
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.