Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

· 1882 - 1941 · 355 kata bijak

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

Virginia Woolf

Seni

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

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Virginia Woolf

Seni

For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.

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Virginia Woolf

Perjuangan

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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Kreativitas

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

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Virginia Woolf

Pendidikan

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

All the time she writing the world had continued.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

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.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

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Virginia Woolf

Kreativitas

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

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Kreativitas

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

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Virginia Woolf

Seni

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

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Virginia Woolf

Cinta

But love...it's only an illusion. A story one makes up in one's mind about another person. And one knows all the time it isn't true. Of course one knows why one's always taking care not to destroy the illusion.

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Pendidikan

Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidious enemies of society, corrupters, defilers, the writers of false books, faked books, books that fill the air with decay and disease?

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Kehidupan

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

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