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
writing thinking persons
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
wall writing bricks
Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...
writing knows know-how
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
hard-work writing pages
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
writing tired lord
Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
imagination my-imagination
Women alone stir my imagination ...
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
heart hands fire
To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.
dog stress writing
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.
simple men animal
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
nice two age
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.
wine giving water
A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.
running dog flower
No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.
lovely world goodness
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.