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
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.
world commit treachery
There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
writing demand may
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence...
art mystery danger
We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.
centre presses
I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
affair illusion
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
fire tragedy heroic
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
vision written
It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.
art hands bridges
You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind ...
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.
years age three
We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.
lovely world goodness
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
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.