Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
VIRGINIA WOOLFWe are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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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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Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.
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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 mind.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.
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I will go down with my colours flying.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Intimacy is a difficult art.
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Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.
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A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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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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