Virginia Woolf Quotes about Philosophy

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

Virginia Woolf

Art, Philosophy, Writing

Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.21, Oxford University Press

Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.

Virginia Woolf

Running, Philosophy, Hands

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics