Virginia Woolf Quotes

If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

I am having a good time doing nothing.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

I enjoy doing nothing.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

I'm actually at home when I'm not on tour, and I have a lot of downtime.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

God, I love daydreaming out plane windows.

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveling the world, living in a place where it snowed, and I would picture all of the stories that I would go on to tell.

I think everyone's dream is to do nothing.

I will travel a lot after my career.

I always wanted to fly. When I was in theatre, I used to go up on Dunstable Downs on my day off to watch the gliders, to get away from it all.

Another reason I did not make films is that I liked being unemployed, since that is when I read, study and write.