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
book order feet
Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.
passion writing gone
There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
hate writing letters
As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.
country air giving
... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
believe expression dont-believe
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.
believe drawing people
As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.
book writing joy
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.
speech torn casts
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
lovely phrases
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
mean numbers people
I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.
art writing divine
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
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.
world tyranny connected
... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
hate plies three
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.