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
essence giving mind
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
integrity facts process
Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.
heart adventure winter
What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.
wall house mind
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.
money writing novel
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
women hate heart
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
writing sight personality
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
witty jobs book
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.
peace war clothes
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
strong-women adversity people
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
women writing secret
If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
time believe optimistic
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
romantic cutting romance
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
world mrs-dalloway ends
After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.