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
men thinking long
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
mind insects fluttering
The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
imagination facts strange
There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
love women poet
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
art imagination perception
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.
running fingers
Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.
pleasure share relish
For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.
differences people heaven
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
mind chaos absurd
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
patience waiting wells
Well, we must wait for the future to show.
illusion praise catastrophe
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
running jugs subtle
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.
mom mother thinking
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
moments despised
These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.