Virginia Woolf Quotes

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

I don't do dishes, and I don't cook, either! Everything else, I can do!

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax.

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

I do most of the cooking. I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

I am not exactly Mrs. Good Housekeeping, although I love to cook, bake, even iron, but only because it's not mandatory.

We keep our house very clean. Lint rollers and vacuum cleaners.

I'm useless around the house.

I am a bit of a domestic goddess to be honest. I am a clean freak so I love doing the hoovering and the cleaning.

Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

I sip the Dom P watching Gandhi til I'm charged - writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.