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
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.
memories independent mind
In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?
writing pleasure certain
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
blood bricks goddess
Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.
artist criticism want
Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.
fire tragedy heroic
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
affair illusion
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
affair illusion
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
world delightful delightful-things
The world is crammed with delightful things
centre presses
I press to my centre, and find there is something there.
writing demand may
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence...
facts world whole-world
To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?
block reading amber
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.