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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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p. … ▶
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices ✨ Suicide note to her husband, 18 Mar. 1941
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.757, Wordsworth Editions
Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved Miss Barrett. Looking up at her from under his eyebrows as she lay, s … ▶
For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writi … ▶

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

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