“There are moments when the sail flaps. Then, being a great amateur of the art of life, determined to suck my orange, off, like a wasp if the blossom I'm on fades, as it did yesterday – I ride across the downs to the cliffs.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Dec 29, 1940

“Half way home we heard 'British warship...British warship' & found that the Formidable has been sunk in the channel. We were kept awake last night by New Year bells. At first I thought they were ringing for a victory.” - Virginia Woolf, Diary, January 1, 1915

Virginia Woolf Quotes ift.tt/2sFsfwk

On this day in 1897, Virginia Woolf begins to keep a regular diary. Almost 100 years later, in 1990, these early diaries were finally published, under the title Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 amzn.to/2CFZ7r3

Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Response: Grasping the Essential Thing ift.tt/2SRVTJk

Winter reads: Orlando by Virginia Woolf ift.tt/29iElOA

Poll: Virginia Woolf's Best Book ift.tt/2NZlprR

“At this very moment, or fifteen minutes ago, to be precise, I bought the ten years lease of 52 Tavistock Sqre London W.C.1. - I like writing Tavistock.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 9, 1924

Stream of Consciousness as a Literary Technique ift.tt/2TdFZcw

“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.” ― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“The afternoons now have an elongated pallid look, as if it were neither winter nor spring.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 13, 1915

“A very cold winter's night, so silent that the air seemed frozen” – Virginia Woolf, The Years

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group ift.tt/1MEErPX

Virginia Woolf's Family ift.tt/2sE3rF6

Virginia Woolf's Art and the Silent World of Things ift.tt/38k93Dy

“I have this moment, while having my bath, conceived an entire new book – a sequel to A Room of One's Own – about the sexual life of women: to be called Professions of Women perhaps – Lord how exciting!” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 20, 1931

On this day in 1932, Lytton Strachey dies of stomach cancer at the age of 51 ift.tt/3ay9f3M

“It's a queer winter – the worst I ever knew, & suitable for the war & all the rest of it.” - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 22, 1915

"The last day of being 35. One trembles to write the years that come after it: all tinged with the shadow of 40." - Virginia Woolf, diary, Jan 24, 1918

On this day in 1882, Virginia Woolf is born in London ift.tt/2UoDrWS