Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader Quotes

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.

The voice of protest is the voice of another and an ancient civilization which seems to have bred in us the instinct to enjoy and fight rather than to suffer and understand.

[Shakespeare} the word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping