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
casual dusty found group lights meant newspaper reality room saying scrap seem stamps
What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
fiction money room woman
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction
british-author money room woman
A woman must have money and a room of her own.
drawing rooms
Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
passion yield rooms
Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
artist rooms needs
All artists need a room of their own
brain rooms
I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
beauty british-author cutting heart laughter
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
convenient somebody term
I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being.
british-author english-poet feeble force seems
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
phantom
It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.
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
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.