Reading Quotes by Virginia Woolf

I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

— Virginia Woolf

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

— Virginia Woolf

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of…

— Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the…

— Virginia Woolf

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

— Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

— Virginia Woolf

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged…

— Virginia Woolf

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the…

— Virginia Woolf

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a…

— Virginia Woolf

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a…

— Virginia Woolf

“I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the…

— Virginia Woolf

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.…

— Virginia Woolf

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts,…

— Virginia Woolf

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty…

— Virginia Woolf

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…

— Virginia Woolf

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature.…

— Virginia Woolf

“And somehow or other, the windows being open, and the book held so that it rested upon a background of escallonia hedges…

— Virginia Woolf

“What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which…

— Virginia Woolf

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people…

— Virginia Woolf

“Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two…

— Virginia Woolf

“Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good…

— Virginia Woolf

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading.…

— Virginia Woolf

“If it is true that there are books written to escape from the present moment, and its meanness and its sordidity, it…

— Virginia Woolf

“...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

...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow…

— Virginia Woolf

“And he went on reading. His lips twitched. It filled him. It fortified him. He clean forgot all the little rubs and…

— Virginia Woolf

“But what might be written in the book which had rounded its edges off in his pocket, she did not know. What…

— Virginia Woolf

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…

— Virginia Woolf

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning…

— Virginia Woolf

“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Think of me, the uneducated child reading books in my room at 22 Hyde Park Gate -- now advanced to this glory...…

— Virginia Woolf

“I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love;…

— Virginia Woolf

“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together…

— Virginia Woolf