"So long as you write what you..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
More by Virginia Woolf
“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.”
“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”
“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.”
More on Writing
“I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.”
“Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.”
“Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.”
More on Authenticity
“I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.”
“Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.”
“You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!”