Books Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Essays Virginia-woolf
“The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“So this, it seems, is the key for authors who want to live forever: You need to write about important things without actually writing… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?” — Priscille Sibley Copy Share Image
“Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.” — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.” — Annie Cohen-Solal Copy Share Image
“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“You are not a tragedy, you are a personal essay. You must rise above and you must do it in the last paragraph with… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.” — Graham McNeill 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
