Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting. Virginia Woolf More Quotes by Virginia Woolf More Quotes From Virginia Woolf I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears. The white petals will be darkened with sea water. They will float for a moment and then sink. Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under. Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me. Virginia Woolf white sea fall Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf prose-and-poetry poetry-is writing There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination. Virginia Woolf strange imagination facts The truer the facts the better the fiction. Virginia Woolf facts fiction Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. Virginia Woolf unsolved-problems problem fiction The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner? Virginia Woolf maps london passion I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely. Virginia Woolf one-time gifted Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? Virginia Woolf voice secret writing The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Virginia Woolf motivational inspirational men What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. Virginia Woolf voice writing people Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people. Virginia Woolf imperfection book people The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass Virginia Woolf leaves-of-grass real home Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. Virginia Woolf feet doors fall And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one. Virginia Woolf imaginary exciting life-is To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world? Virginia Woolf whole facts world The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Virginia Woolf eye practice writing The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf independent happiness life A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Virginia Woolf quality literature writing Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once. Virginia Woolf expression sound giving The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. Virginia Woolf adequate strange years
