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
circles air musical
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
giving creative biographies
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
book reading form
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
country sex fighting
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Thoughts without words… Can that be?
museums lust desire
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
animal doubt capacity
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.
lovely phrases
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
Words belong to each other.
six feels stills
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
dog stress writing
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.
mother daughter baby
Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
seems
We insist, it seems, on living.
silence needs done
I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.