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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There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

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In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance.

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After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.

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All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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As a woman, I have no country

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind.

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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.

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The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

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I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.

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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.

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I'm sick to death of this particular self. I want another.

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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

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