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
heart adventure winter
What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.
integrity facts process
Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.
world fool genius
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
writing people ask-me
People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.
weed lying night
I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?
country
As a woman, I have no country
literature statements
That complete statement which is literature.
problem poet lays
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
life-is remorseless
How remorseless life is!
moderation dangerous extremes
All extremes are dangerous.
connections emotion
old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.
lonely communication journey
letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.
beauty loveliness
loveliness is infernally sad.
moving moments
Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.