I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Literature had taken possession even of her memories. She was matching him, presumably, with certain characters in the old novels...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known… — 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
“People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some… — 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
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm… — 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
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove… — 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
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — 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
“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And is there any reason, we ask as we shut the book, why the perspective that a plain earthenware pot exacts should… — 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
“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
“There she sits in the corner of the carriage—that carriage which is travelling, not from Richmond to Waterloo, but from one age… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As for the other experiences, the solitary ones, which people go through alone, in their bedrooms, in their offices, walking the fields… — 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
“No, Charles Tansley would put them both right in a second about books, but it was all so mixed up with, Am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It was better to die, like Eugénie and Digby, in the prime of life with all one's faculties about one. But he… — 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
“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us… — 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
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies… — 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
Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. — 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
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. — 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
“Do not dictate to your author; try to become him. Be his fellow-worker and accomplice.” — 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
![“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with…” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c4/virginia-woolf-49_authors_what-one-means-by-integrity-in-the-case_1159124.jpg)
