Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people…

Virginia Woolf
593 citations
Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.2687, Delphi Classics
Humanity Thought Truth
21

More Author Quotes

The depths of the sea are only water after all.
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on th … ▶
But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2007). Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, p.32, Wordsworth Edit … ▶
Submit to me. So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free t … ▶
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.783, Delphi Classics

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated), p.2687, Delphi Classics

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes