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.
choices living-my-life
It's my choice, to choose how to live my life.
chaos longing
Only longing can fill with more of itself.
wine water literature
There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
letters puppy bones
I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.
journey vivid illness
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.
lovely phrases
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
speech torn casts
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
artist criticism want
Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
world delightful delightful-things
The world is crammed with delightful things
centre presses
I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
stronger position
Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.
flames gold icicles
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
ordinary depends extraordinary
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.