People Quotes by Virginia Woolf

“People are—nothing more.”

— Virginia Woolf

It is no use trying to sum people up.

— Virginia Woolf

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

— Virginia Woolf

I see through most people; I'm hardly ever wrong. I see at once what they've got in them.

— Virginia Woolf

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

— Virginia Woolf

“The people we are most fond of are not good for us when we are ill.”

— Virginia Woolf

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

— Virginia Woolf

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn...

— Virginia Woolf

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

— Virginia Woolf

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the…

— Virginia Woolf

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is…

— Virginia Woolf

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about…

— Virginia Woolf

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

— Virginia Woolf

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

— Virginia Woolf

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the…

— Virginia Woolf

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part…

— Virginia Woolf

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

— Virginia Woolf

In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men…

— Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before…

— Virginia Woolf

To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired…

— Virginia Woolf

She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her.…

— Virginia Woolf

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his…

— Virginia Woolf

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia…

— Virginia Woolf

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking…

— Virginia Woolf

Oh and I thought, as i was dressing, how interesting it would be to describe the approach of age, and the gradual…

— Virginia Woolf

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift…

— Virginia Woolf

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this…

— Virginia Woolf

The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features…

— Virginia Woolf

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks;…

— Virginia Woolf

Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is…

— Virginia Woolf

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how…

— Virginia Woolf

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

— Virginia Woolf

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

— Virginia Woolf

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

— Virginia Woolf

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

— Virginia Woolf

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

— Virginia Woolf