Quotes by Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

Explore a curated collection of 13 quotes by Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loose — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sni — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself. — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to b — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, n — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
The idea has come to me that what I want now to do is to saturate every atom. I mean to eliminate all waste, deadness, s — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, s — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literatu — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head. — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing. — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is th — Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary