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Virginia Woolf quotes about book

British Author, Composer, Writer January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941

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What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever. Virginia Woolf
One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. Virginia Woolf
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. Virginia Woolf
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. Virginia Woolf
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like..."
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: " a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of..."
... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. Virginia Woolf
People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more then they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Books are the mirrors of the soul."
Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf
Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, "I have done with men. Virginia Woolf
Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The devilish thing about writing is that it calls upon every nerve to hold itself taut. This is exactly what I cannot do-- Virginia Woolf
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Virginia Woolf
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of..."
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with..."
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. Virginia Woolf

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