Reads tagged with “Virginia Woolf”
Great Writers on the Power of Music
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
Virginia Woolf on the Past and How to Live More Fully in the Present
“The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river.”
Virginia Woolf on the Elasticity of Time
“An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length.”
The Problem of Shakespeare’s Sister: Virginia Woolf on Gender in Creative Culture
“To write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Everything is against the likelihood that it will come from the writer’s mind whole and entire.”
Virginia Woolf on Why She Became a Writer and the Shock-Receiving Capacity Necessary for Being an Artist
“Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern… the whole world is a work of art… there is no Shakespeare… no Beethoven… no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.”
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