Virginia Woolf

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

There is a persistence of vision.

Illusions are to the soul as to the eye.

One wanted, she thought, different lives perhaps.

The sky stuck to them; the birds sang through them.

I have lost my temper, I have lost my reason, I have lost my self-control.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a private matter.

I mean to make myself a name.

I am not a writer of books, but a writer of sentences.

I have an immense desire to be alone, and a great desire to be loved.

I feel that I am on the verge of a great discovery.

I want to write a novel that will be a complete break with tradition.

I am always trying to get at the truth of things, and I find it very difficult.

I think one ought to be able to write about everything.

I am so happy that I have found you, my dear Leonard.

I am trying to make my mind as fluid as possible.

I feel as if I am on the edge of a precipice.

I am determined to write a masterpiece.