Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.
Virginia WoolfTravelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.
Virginia WoolfI feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of oneโs own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
Virginia WoolfOne of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia WoolfI feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together.
Virginia Woolf