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Best Writing Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which…
- I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
- Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my…
- Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most…
- For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which…
- All the time she writing the world had continued.
- Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
- When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
- What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this…
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
- As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to…
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours,…
- The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a…
- Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
- I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov