So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Proba…

Virginia Woolf
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words. ✨ Virginia Woolf (1981). Mrs. Dalloway, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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