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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
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
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
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
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
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
