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
interesting truthful results
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
book reading mirrors
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
reality phantoms harder
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
women truth-is completeness
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
imagination mind pageant
But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.
inspirational country strong-women
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
discovery miracle perpetual
... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
birthday running laughing
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
people crowds body
Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
independent eye self
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
love food sleep
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
desire daily-life inarticulate
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
believe passion cutting
No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.
reading giving advice
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.