1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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

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.

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever