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 WOOLFA woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
-
-
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Marvelous are the innocent.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
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 WOOLF -
I will go down with my colours flying.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Love had a thousand shapes.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
VIRGINIA WOOLF -
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
VIRGINIA WOOLF