Quote of Virginia Woolf - Every secret of a writer's soul...
Biography - Virginia Woolf:
English writer.
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1882 - Died: 1941
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Quotes about life:
Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: writing
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Virginia Woolf also said...
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