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Writing Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation…
- If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
- Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to…
- O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism…
- Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write…
- It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.
- I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
- Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
- It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural…
- I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It…
- One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
- A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
- Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts…
- Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write…
- I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
- Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
- A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
- This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
- Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely…
- The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
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