“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
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device - a means of summing up and making a knot of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare is getting flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him, as they put his monument at Stratford beyond the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy.… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. — 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
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire. — 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
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
And now more than anything I want beautiful prose. I relish it more and more exquisitely. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“the time coming when I can endure to read my own writing in print without blushing—shivering and wishing to take cover?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous;… — 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
![“Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start I forget all about it. One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, a silence there;[...] the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/807/virginia-woolf-49_morning_unpraised-i-find-it-hard-to-start-writin_3011014.jpg)
