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However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon....more

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It is much more important to be oneself than anything else.

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

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My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to c...more

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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 t...more

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These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device - a means of summing up and making a knot of innumerable little threads. Innumerable th...more

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and it was the moment between six and seven when every flower-roses, carnations, irises, lilac-glows; white, violet, red, deep orange; every flower se...more

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(June had drawn out every leaf on the trees. The mothers of Pimlico gave suck to their young. Messages were passing from the Fleet to the Admiralty. A...more

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Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dis...more

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She would not have cared to confess how infinitely she preferred the exactitude, the star-like impersonality, of figures to the confusion, agitation, ...more

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She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her t...more

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She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The world was going on as ...more

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All the time she writing the world had continued.