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
sunshine fog weather
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
speech torn casts
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
stronger position
Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
ordinary depends extraordinary
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.
integrity facts process
Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.
literature statements
That complete statement which is literature.
six feels stills
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
lovely world goodness
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
theory dangerous dangerous-things
Theories then are dangerous things.
landscape might tongue
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
roots dirt
The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
goes-on made dose
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
difficulty communicate oneself
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.