"What a labour writing is ... making..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work.
More by Virginia Woolf
“For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”
“First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
“Life would split apart without letters.”
More on Writing
“Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.”
“I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.”
“When I am in the process of conceiving a story, I make sure it can be told with words and pictures. The story has to be creative, original and interesting in both areas. Many stories get rejected because they feel derivative.”
More on Work
“The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.”
“I feel exhausted if I teach too long.”
“It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.”