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
play support soul
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
beautiful eye winter
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!
sex thinking fiction
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of woman's life is that ...
writing thinking mood
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
people too-much jelly
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
writing mind excellence
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
time space childhood
That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
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.