Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An i >>

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into >>

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is writte >>

Quotations about Autobiography

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form >>

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, t >>

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who >>

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

Woolf, Virginia