"It is worth mentioning, for future reference,..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
More by Virginia Woolf
“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
“Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.”
“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 on Writing
“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”
“Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.”
“I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.”
More on Creativity
“It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.”
“I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.”
“An idea comes as near to something for nothing as you can get.”