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
artist beyond british-author men mind minded nature opinions reason strewn
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
art criticism fiction
... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
art mean wool
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
art order fiction
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
art intimacy difficult
Intimacy is a difficult art ...
art war believe
if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.
art reading difficult
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.
art philosophy writing
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
art real world
Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.
teacher artist people
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.
artist solitary
The artist after all is a solitary being.
artist criticism want
Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
art mystery danger
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
art hands bridges
You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind ...