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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
Virginia Woolf
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... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.
Virginia Woolf
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What a comfort is friendship in this world.
Virginia Woolf
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O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!
Virginia Woolf
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Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia Woolf
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To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
Virginia Woolf
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I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.
Virginia Woolf
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Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it.
Virginia Woolf
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There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.
Virginia Woolf
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As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.
Virginia Woolf
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... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?
Virginia Woolf
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I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.
Virginia Woolf
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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
Virginia Woolf
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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists the reality of everything.
Virginia Woolf
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No, I'm not clever. I've always cared more for people than for ideas.
Virginia Woolf
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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
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So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.
Virginia Woolf
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To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
Virginia Woolf
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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
Virginia Woolf
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As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
Virginia Woolf
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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
Virginia Woolf
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You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.
Virginia Woolf
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For nothing was simply one thing.
Virginia Woolf
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