"As for my next book, I won't..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
More by Virginia Woolf
“Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.”
“It is the duty of the writer to describe.”
“The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.”
More on Writing
“I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.”
“The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.”
“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”
More on Creativity
“We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.”
“There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.”
“If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.”