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The way to write well is to live intensely. — Virginia Woolf

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. — Virginia Woolf

There was a day when I liked writing letters
it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains. — Virginia Woolf

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses] — Virginia Woolf

It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else. — Virginia Woolf

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. — Virginia Woolf

If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things. — Virginia Woolf

Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections. — Virginia Woolf

Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it. — Virginia Woolf

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant. — Virginia Woolf

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet. — Virginia Woolf

Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me. — Virginia Woolf

She was writing for everybody, for nobody, for our age, for her own ... — Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter. — Edith Sitwell

Writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial. — Virginia Woolf

All the time she writing the world had continued. — Virginia Woolf

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook - a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. — Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. — Edith Sitwell

One always sees the soul through words. (22 July 1922) — Virginia Woolf

As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf

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. — Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. — Virginia Woolf

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know. — Virginia Woolf

To write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale. — Virginia Woolf

All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf

As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better. — Virginia Woolf

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that. — Virginia Woolf

What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. — Virginia Woolf

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 Woolf

You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight. — Virginia Woolf

I will write," she had said, "what I enjoy writing. — Virginia Woolf

To know whom to write for is to know how to write. — Virginia Woolf

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. — Virginia Woolf

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall ... — Virginia Woolf

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. — Virginia Woolf

I am I: and I must follow that furrow, not copy another. That is the only justification for my writing, living. — Virginia Woolf

Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing. — Virginia Woolf

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. — Virginia Woolf

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing. — Virginia Woolf

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf

I am extremely happy walking on the downs...I like to have space to spread my mind out in. — Virginia Woolf

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? — Virginia Woolf