“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that… — 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
“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
“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
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
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In all the books love is one of the great facts that mould human life. But it is a catastrophe: it happens… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgments we pass steal in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“They were boastful, triumphant; it seemed to both that they had read every book in the world; known every sin, passion, and… — 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
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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