About Virginia Woolf: Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, a...
The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
