Quotes by Virginia Woolf

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”

“I am sunk deep in books... I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion — writing — only the wrong side of the carpet. Heaven knows what either amounts to. My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery — always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? Whats this passion for? You, who love questions, answer me that. No — nobody can.... oh so many books — doesn't it break your heart almost to think of me, with this passion, always consumed with the desire to read, chopped, chafed, bugged, battered by the voices, the hands, the faces, the bodily presence of those who are pleased to call themselves my friends?”