Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes

The world was going on as usual. All the time she was writing the world had continued.

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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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When I say that I can write nothing but weird fiction, I am not trying to exalt that medium but am merely confessing my own weakness. The reason I can't write other kinds is not that I don't value & respect them, but merely that my slender set of endowments does not enable me to extract a compellingly acute personal sense of interest & drama from the natural phenomena of life.

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

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A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.

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Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

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I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

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I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I write most of my lyrics and my songs. It's a very happy productive place.

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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

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When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

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I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.

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For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

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What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

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