Woolf Quotes

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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Virginia Woolf was one example. She was called the "Lover of 100 Gangsters."

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed' into art."

Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.

It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

History is too much about wars

I need not flatter any man

anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

Just in case you ever foolishly forget

Sometimes she arches away from me and wears a light halo of genius about her.

I find feminism in smiles of a country girl not in Woolf’s artworks.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.

The eyes of others our prisons

Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple

There was an emptiness about the heart of life

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed

She seemed a compound of the autumn leaves and the winter sunshine ...

So the being grows rings

Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences.

She felt very young