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
sleep people want
Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?
artist criticism want
Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
book people wanted
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.
self sick want
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
heart body want
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
way want married
I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married
thinking want facts
I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.
eye knowing want-something
There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
want feels humans
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
giving solitude want
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
beautiful want prose
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely.
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
beyond literature minded opinion others reason strewn
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others