Top 86 Quotes by Virginia Woolf

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

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

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.