79 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about writing

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

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    A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

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    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.

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

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    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. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

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