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Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in a...more

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Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.

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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you...more

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Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured in meaning we can only unfold them when we are alo...more

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And there he would lie all day long on the lawn brooding presumably over his poetry, till he reminded one of a cat watching birds, when he had found t...more

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And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there rose that half-heard melody, that intermittent music...more

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James was sixteen, Cam seventeen, perhaps. She had looked round for someone who was not there, for Mrs. Ramsay, presumably. But there was only kind Mr...more

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Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to come through her eyelids). And it all looked, Mr. C...more

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It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft whi...more

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Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

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

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The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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He is limp and damp and milder than the breath of a cow.

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As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.