"Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."
― Virginia Woolf
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Virginia Woolf
- "Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
- "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."
- "There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
More In Experience
- "The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.”"― Daniel J. Boorstin
- "The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience."― Gloria Swanson
- "Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different."― Ian Mckellen