1,646 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

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

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ...

Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, severe and silent on the sofa, he knew that he must love her for ever. Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.