Virginia Woolf:

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

— Virginia Woolf Modern

Modernist novelist

Context

Letter to Vita Sackville-West

Date / Period

1929

Source

https://archive.org/details/lettersofvirgini0000wool

Verification

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Explanation

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Method

Cross Reference

Sources Checked

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