Quotes by : Vita Sackville-West

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over....

There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and....

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in....

And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which....

She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for....

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting....

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Not seeing is half-believing.

I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it....