“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...Orlando, to whom fortune had given every gift--plate, linen, houses, men-servants, carpets, beds in profusion--had only to open a book for the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“There it lay in the early sunshine of spring. It looked a town rather than a house, but a town built, not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
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