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
june london moments
what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.
innocent marvelous
Marvelous are the innocent.
self sick want
I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.
fall reading writing
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
writing soul secret
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
running women mean
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
healing overwhelmed found
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
writing voice secret
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
real simple goes-on
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
creativity order creative
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
writing quality literature
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
art nature humans
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
brain madness scrap
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
reality disease phantoms
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.