Virginia Woolf Quotes, Art Quotes, Criticism Quotes

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.

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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

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Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

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She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

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But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

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How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

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To survive, each sentence must have, at its heart, a little spark of fire, and this, whatever the risk, the novelist must pluck with his own hands from the blaze.

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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Books are the mirrors of the soul.

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

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Well, we must wait for the future to show.

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

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