Virginia Woolf Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Artist, Order, Effort

• They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

  Virginia Woolf

  Effort, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.168, Wordsworth Editions

• The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

• Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

  Virginia Woolf

  Skeletons, Effort, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

• Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Epic, Men

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