"And yet, the only exciting life is..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
More by Virginia Woolf
“She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.”
“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
“The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer.”
More on Imagination
“I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.”
“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”
“Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.”