Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Virginia Woolf
English writer, 20th-century modernist author
Virginia Woolf was an English writer and a major modernist author of the 20th century. She is especially known for helping to pioneer stream of consciousness narration in fiction. Her work helped shape modern literature through its formal experimentation and attention to inner thought. She is remembered above all for the narrative technique she helped develop, which became influential in later writing.
More from Virginia Woolf (406 quotes) →Other sayings from Virginia Woolf
- “It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in…”Virginia Woolf
- “I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene…”Virginia Woolf
- “Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”Virginia Woolf
- “No guinea of earned money should go to rebuilding the college on the old plan just as certainly none could be…”Virginia Woolf
More Boredom quotes
- “War means endless waiting, endless boredom. There is no electricity, so no television. You can't read. You ca…”Janine Di Giovanni
- “Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of…”Tom Hodgkinson
- “Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it had quite…”Terry Pratchett
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
An essay on women and writing.