Virginia Woolf Quotes (196 quotes)
“The Reverend C. L. Dodgson had no life. He passed through the world so lightly that he left no print. He melted so passively into Oxford that he is invisible.”
Essay Lewis Carroll (1939); reprinted in The Moment, and Other Essays (1948)
“For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.”
Essay Lewis Carroll (1939)
“Theirs, too, is the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”
Notes on an Elizabethan Play - The Common Reader (1925)
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Born: January 25, 1882
Died: March 28, 1941 (aged 59)
Occupation: Author, novelist, essayist, publisher, critic
Bio: Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.