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Virginia Woolf Quotes

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

Topics

Business Truth Fight Seeds Thinking

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.

Walk Day Book Think Back Say

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Myself Tea Write Two Starting Up

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

Evil Kind Crime Never Falling Order

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Justice Legal Feel Worth You Know

Petty thievery is a more profitable job than pool hustling, which it resembles, requires far less talent and training, and is equally devoid of promise.

Job Training Talent Pool Petty More

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

Writing Think Long You Look Down

It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.

Lovely Sing Able Thing

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

Time Writing Friends Early Feeling

I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Villain Story Comedy You Always Who

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Desiderius Erasmus

Hope Thinking You Want Will Happen

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

Perspective Struggle Mom Year Know

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Donald Sutherland

Work Job People Me Gift Doing

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