Writer Quotes

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"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"To write is to be a ghost."

-- Virginia Woolf

"To write is to be a ghost."

-- Virginia Woolf

"I like to have space to spread my mind out in."

-- Virginia Woolf

"I like to have space to spread my mind out in."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Life is a dream; 'tis the waking that kills us."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Life is a dream; 'tis the waking that kills us."

-- Virginia Woolf

"One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the presence of someone, and then it is better to be alone."

-- Virginia Woolf

"One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the presence of someone, and then it is better to be alone."

-- Virginia Woolf

"To believe that your impressions hold good for others is to be released from the confines of your own personality."

-- Virginia Woolf

"To believe that your impressions hold good for others is to be released from the confines of your own personality."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it."

-- Virginia Woolf

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

-- Virginia Woolf

"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Across the broad continent of a woman’s life, her biography is almost entirely a blank."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Across the broad continent of a woman’s life, her biography is almost entirely a blank."

-- Virginia Woolf

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

-- Virginia Woolf

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Heavens, how I like to be alone!"

-- Virginia Woolf

"Heavens, how I like to be alone!"

-- Virginia Woolf

"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."

-- Virginia Woolf

"As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A farm, a house, a garden, a small income, and the work that one chooses and loves—that is the good life."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A farm, a house, a garden, a small income, and the work that one chooses and loves—that is the good life."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Was it not possible that the world itself was a brain?"

-- Virginia Woolf

"Was it not possible that the world itself was a brain?"

-- Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

-- Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The human figure even at its best is a very poor piece of work compared with the flowers and the trees."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The human figure even at its best is a very poor piece of work compared with the flowers and the trees."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for."

-- Virginia Woolf

"What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years."

-- Virginia Woolf

"What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

-- Virginia Woolf

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

-- Virginia Woolf

"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me."

-- Virginia Woolf

"I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind of the reader."

-- Virginia Woolf

"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind of the reader."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

-- Virginia Woolf

"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

-- Virginia Woolf