Virginia Woolf Quotes

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in whatever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Yes, always keep the Classics at hand to prevent flop.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

I am not trying to tell a story. Yet perhaps it might be done in that way. A mind thinking. They might be islands of light – islands in the stream that I am trying to convey; life itself going on.