Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
Weitere Zitate von Virginia Woolf
Zum Autor"It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."
"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."
"Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught."
"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
"Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body."
"...It struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued."