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Writing Quotes - Page 690

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4409, Delphi Classics

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

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.167, Lulu Press, Inc

writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928”, Harcourt on Demand

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.

Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

Virginia Woolf (1980). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P