"It doesn't have to be the truth,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
It doesn't have to be the truth, just your vision of it, written down.
More by Virginia Woolf
“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man; some think even greater.”
“The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.”
“Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”
More on Writing
“Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.”
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
“he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could be more than a private hobby. But for his interest and unceasing eagerness for more I should never have brought The L. of the R. to a conclusion.”
More on Truth
“Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.”
“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.”
“Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.”