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
beyond literature minded opinion others reason strewn
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others
wine water literature
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
writing literature ifs
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
flames literature world
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames.
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent.
self literature may
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
literature statements
That complete statement which is literature.
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
writing quality literature
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
literature antagonist felt
And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.
way literature common
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.
altering aspect believe forever hence
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
book heart known leaves past shut title
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title
effort mind
They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.