Virginia Woolf Quotes


[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.


Citations

Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume V: 1936-1941. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, p. 357.

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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
  • Born: January 25, 1882
  • Died: March 28, 1941
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Author

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.