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Writing is still like heaving ...

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ...

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

I think writing, my writing, i...

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

writing is the profound pleasu...

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There is no room for the impur...

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

To survive, each sentence must...

To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

women have always been poor, n...

women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

We [women] have borne and bred...

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

How lovely goodness is in thos...

How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

No one would think of bringing...

No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

But words have been used too o...

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A writer should give direct ce...

A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

There is something about the p...

There is something about the present which we would not exchange, though we were offered a choice of all past ages to live in.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

... the transaction between a ...

... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

But Time, unfortunately, thoug...

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Books should stand on their ow...

Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

How far we are going to read a...

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

... it's been a perpetual disc...

... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

... the public and the private...

... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

Peace was the third emotion. L...

Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

A thousand things to be writte...

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

Virginia Woolf 938 quotes

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