1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

Words belong to each other.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.