Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.
Virginia WoolfBeauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty โ it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life โ froze it.
Virginia WoolfLet us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatchedโlove for instanceโwe go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.
Virginia Woolf