--- title: "6 Letter Quotes By Virginia Woolf" description: "6 Letter quotes by Virginia Woolf. Plus more from Virginia Woolf and more Letter sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/virginia-woolf-49_letter_the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precise_145051.jpg" --- > [The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precisely-those-that-can-never-be/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/virginia-woolf-49_letter_the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precise_145051.jpg) > [You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/you-have-a-touch-in-letter-writing-that-is-beyond-me-something/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/virginia-woolf-49_corners_you-have-a-touch-in-letter-writing-that_569153.jpg) > [I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-was-lying-in-bed-this-morning-and-saying-to-myself-the-remarkable/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a17/virginia-woolf-49_bed_i-was-lying-in-bed-this-morning-and-sayi_761765.jpg) > [“Why, I ask, can I not finish the letter that I am writing? For my room is always scattered with unfinished letters.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/why-i-ask-can-i-not-finish-the-letter-that-i-am-writing-for-my-room/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05e/virginia-woolf-49_quote_why-i-ask-can-i-not-finish-the-letter-th_1732369.jpg) > [I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/i-was-so-pleased-and-excited-by-your-letter-that-i-trotted-about-all/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90d/virginia-woolf-49_bones_i-was-so-pleased-and-excited-by-your-let_2181250.jpg) > [“Let us consider letters - how they come at breakfast, and at night, with their yellow stamps and their green stamps, immortalized…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/let-us-consider-letters-how-they-come-at-breakfast-and-at-night-with/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94e/virginia-woolf-49_correspondence_let-us-consider-letters-how-they-come-at_3016664.jpg) ## Other authors on Letter ## More by Virginia Woolf > [Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/fatigue-is-the-safest-sleeping-draught/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-train-slows-and-lengthens-as-we-approach-london-the-centre-and-my/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/across-the-broad-continent-of-a-woman-s-life-falls-the-shadow-of-a/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/other-worshipful-objects-were-content-with-worship-men-women-god-all/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/why-does-samuel-butler-say-wise-men-never-say-what-they-think-of/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/sometimes-he-woke-with-a-brain-like-lead-at-others-it-was-as-if-a/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-extraordinary-woman-depends-on-the-ordinary-woman-it-is-only-when/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-veil-of-insanity-everywhere-oh-why-i-was-born-in-this-age-it-is-a/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/love-ought-to-stop-on-both-sides-don-t-you-think-simultaneously-he/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/it-is-so-vast-an-alleviation-to-be-able-to-point-for-another-to-look/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-a-vast-fertility-of-pleasure-books-hold-for-me-i-think-i-could/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“what a luxury to be alone once more,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/what-a-luxury-to-be-alone-once-more/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/a-woman-writing-thinks-back-through-her-mothers/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“For one's children so often gave one's own perceptions a little thrust forwards.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/for-one-s-children-so-often-gave-one-s-own-perceptions-a-little/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) > [“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/she-would-not-say-of-anyone-in-the-world-now-that-they-were-this-or/) [Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-woolf/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/letter/virginia-woolf/#itemlist", "name": "6 Letter Quotes By Virginia Woolf", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Virginia Woolf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-woolf/the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precisely-those-that-can-never-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/virginia-woolf-49_letter_the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precise_145051.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/virginia-woolf-49_letter_the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precise_145051.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fb/virginia-woolf-49_letter_the-best-letters-of-our-time-are-precise_145051.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.” — Virginia Woolf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. 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