What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence