Virginia Woolf Quotes About Writing

• Cierra tus bibliotecas si quieres, pero no hay puerta, ni cerradura, ni cerrojo que puedas poner a la libertad de mi mente.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libertad, Mujeres, Lectura

  Virginia Woolf (2005). "Obras escogidas de Virginia Woolf", p.610, Ediciones Wordsworth

• Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia si quiere escribir ficción.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Writing, Words Of Wisdom

  A Room of One's Own ch. 1 (1929)

• Vale la pena mencionar, para futuras referencias, que el poder creativo que burbujea tan placenteramente al comenzar un nuevo libro se calma después de un tiempo, y uno sigue adelante con más constancia. Aparecen las dudas. Entonces uno se resigna. La determinación de no rendirse y la sensación de una forma inminente hacen que uno se mantenga en ello más que cualquier otra cosa.

  Virginia Woolf

  Determination, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.37, HMH

• I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, People, Silence

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.194, Delphi Classics

• I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

  Virginia Woolf

  Optimistic, Writing, Usual

  Virginia Woolf (1978). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol.2, 1920-1924”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

• La literatura está sembrada de despojos de hombres a los que les han importado más allá de lo razonable las opiniones de los demás.

  Virginia Woolf

  Escritura, Hombres, Otros Opiniones

  Una habitación propia (1929) cap. 3

• Cada secreto del alma de un escritor, cada experiencia de su vida, cada cualidad de su mente está escrita en grande en sus obras.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Soul, Secret

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

• Ordena las piezas que se te presenten.

  Virginia Woolf

  Educación, Risas, Inspiración

  Virginia Woolf (2003). "Diario de un escritor", p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Writing, Letters

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

• Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Doe, Finals

  Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson (1979). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931”, Harcourt on Demand

• When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wise, Mother, Writing

  Una habitación propia cap. 3 (1929)

• En cuanto a mi próximo libro, no lo escribiré hasta que haya crecido en mi mente como una pera madura; colgante, grávida, pidiendo que la corten o se caerá.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Otoño, Escritura

• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

• If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Together, Crafts

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “To the Lighthouse”, p.4, OUP Oxford

• Cuando no puedo ver las palabras enroscándose como anillos de humo a mi alrededor, estoy en la oscuridad, no soy nada.

  Virginia Woolf

  Escritura, Oscuridad, Existencia

  Virginia Woolf (2016). "Las olas", p.97, Virginia Woolf

• Porque parece -su caso lo demostró- que escribimos, no con los dedos, sino con toda la persona. El nervio que controla la pluma se enrosca en cada fibra de nuestro ser, enhebra el corazón, atraviesa el hígado.

  Virginia Woolf

  Escritura, Corazón, Viento

  Virginia Woolf (2015). "Orlando", p.149, Booklassic

• The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Writing, Practice

• Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Prose And Poetry, Poetry Is

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.61, Lulu Press, Inc

• Un buen ensayo debe tener esta cualidad permanente; debe correr su cortina a nuestro alrededor, pero debe ser una cortina que no nos deje fuera, sino dentro.

  Virginia Woolf

  Escritura, calidad, literatura

  1925 The Common Reader, "El ensayo moderno".

• Lo que me emociona es escribir, no que me lean.

  Virginia Woolf

  Escribir, Alegría

  "Diario de un escritor".

• I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Plot, Rhythm

  Virginia Woolf (2000). “The Waves”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

• But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Eye, Practice

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Voice, Secret

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.

  Virginia Woolf

  Escritura, Voz, Personas

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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