"It is the duty of the writer..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.”

“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”

“I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?”

“My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.”

“Easy writing makes hard reading.”

“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.”

“Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”

“When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.”