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The proper stuff of fiction' d...

The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

As a creator of character his ...

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people upon the fire.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

the profound difference that d...

the profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

fishing teaches a stern morali...

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Unless you catch ideas on the ...

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Intimacy is a difficult art .....

Intimacy is a difficult art ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

jealousy ... survives every ot...

jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

You have a touch in letter wri...

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

The best letters of our time a...

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Why is life so tragic; so like...

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

How remorseless life is!...

How remorseless life is!

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

literature is the record of ou...

literature is the record of our discontent.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

to write a novel in the heart ...

to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Lies will flow from my lips, b...

Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

in marriage a little licence, ...

in marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

As an experience, madness is t...

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Indeed, I thought, slipping th...

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

if newspapers were written by ...

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To read a novel is a difficult...

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I believe that the main thing ...

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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