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
sweet dust tree
But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.
past choices age
There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.
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.
literature rooms essays
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.
writing thinking persons
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
war men games
war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.
imagination my-imagination
Women alone stir my imagination ...
art believe skills
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
writing tired lord
Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
book writing discovery
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.
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 knows know-how
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
wall writing bricks
Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...
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.