Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emo…

Virginia Woolf
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Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2016). The Waves, p.9, Virginia Wo … ▶
Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf … ▶
I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.31
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous … ▶

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.

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