Quotes by : Virginia Woolf

What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond....

The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading....

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds....

There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but....

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of....

I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures -....

Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist....

This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy....

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse....