Writing Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own...”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.” — Kristopher Jansma Copy Share Image
“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.” — Iain Reid Copy Share Image
“Still, he could see by the way she carried herself that she'd truly come of age and was at peace with the world. That… — Steven A. McKay Copy Share Image
“She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.” — Will Weaver Copy Share Image
“But she knew better than anybody, home wasn't a place; it's a state of mind. It's the people you're with. And for her, those… — T.A. White Copy Share Image
“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for,… — Ariel Schrag 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
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch 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
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
