The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you’ve struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
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It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.
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