“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I exist only in the soles of my feet and in the tired muscles of my thighs. We have been walking for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is extremely difficult to say with any sense at all of adequacy what To the Lighthouse is all about.” — Arnold Kettle Copy Share Image
“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.” — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Was it Brigid Brophy who gave up on a certain Virginia Woolf novel when she discovered that Woolf believed one needed a… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that — not letting themselves be… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...]… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“I am sitting up in bed: I am very very charming; and Vita is a dear old rough coated sheep dog: or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“These selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as plates are piled on a waiter's hand, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Clive with his tongue well-loosened, imagine my horror when he suddenly said, 'I wonder if I dare ask Vita a very indiscreet… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I've just stopped talking to you. It seems so strange. It's perfectly peaceful here--they're playing bowls--I'd just put flowers in your room.… — 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
“When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Lord, how unutterably disgusting life is! What dirty tricks it plays us, one moment free; the next, this. Here we are among… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“As summer neared, as the evening lengthened there came to the wakeful, the hopeful, walking the beach, stirring the pool, imaginations of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Woolf worried about the childlessness from time to time, and suffered from the imposed anxiety that she was not, unlike her friend… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But Orlando was a woman — Lord Palmerston had just proved it. And when we are writing the life of a woman,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Vita has been twice. She is doomed to go to Persia; and I mind the thought so much (thinking to lose sight… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Must, must, must — detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
![“I have a perfectly romantic and no doubt untrue vision of you in my mind – stamping out the hops in a great vat in Kent – stark naked, brown as a satyr, and very beautiful. Don't tell me this is all illusion [...]” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/975/virginia-woolf-49_dreams_i-have-a-perfectly-romantic-and-no-doubt_2882664.jpg)
![“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...] But darling, Virginia is not the sort of person one thinks of in that way. There is something incongruous and almost indecent in the idea. I have gone to bed with her (twice), but that's all…” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6af/vita-sackville-west-4366_affair_i-don-t-want-to-get-landed-in-an-affair_2715854.jpg)
![“I am sitting up in bed: I am very very charming; and Vita is a dear old rough coated sheep dog: or alternatively, hung with grapes, pink with pearls, lustrous, candle lit, in the door of a Sevenoaks draper [...] Ah, but I like being with Vita.” quote by Virginia Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/virginia-woolf-49_charming_i-am-sitting-up-in-bed-i-am-very-very-ch_2952174.jpg)
![“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still far from well, and she has lots of lessons to do. Leonard is coming on Saturday [...] Please don't think that a) I shall fall in love with Virginia b) Virginia will fall in love with…” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/vita-sackville-west-4366_fall-in-love_virginia-is-an-exquisite-companion-and-i_1353409.jpg)
