Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences. — 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
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — 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
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object… — 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
