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
good-night winter sound
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.
sleep draught fatigue
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
truth business mean
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
book dark squares
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?
education laughter inspiration
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
dream travel book
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
women simple womanly
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
ridiculous curious protect
It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.
heart writing wind
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
running simple air
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.
courage mean thinking
This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
feelings madness extremes
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.
women diversity poetry
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
book judging habit
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.