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Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.”

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British modernist writer, known for her unique narrative techniques and profound portrayal of female experience. Her works include 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Mrs. Dalloway'. more

“a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

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

Writing Hard Hard Work Pages Sentences Labour One Sentence

Book:The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1932-1935

“To know whom to write for is to know how to write.”

Knows Writing Know How

Book:The Common Reader

Source: The Common Reader

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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