Virginia Woolf Quotes, Writing Quotes, Criticism Quotes

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

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I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

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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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