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
pain virginia blood
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves
dust desire dry
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
time bolts
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
people trying use
It is no use trying to sum people up.
duty
It is the duty of the writer to describe.
horse blame praise
Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
writing joy
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.
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.
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.
motivational women power
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
running fingers
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
children house anxiety
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.
color flying
I will go down with my colors flying.
use
Use words that soak up life.