Virginia Woolf Quotes About Books

• Los libros están por todas partes, y siempre nos invade la misma sensación de aventura. Los libros de segunda mano son libros salvajes, libros sin hogar; se han reunido en grandes bandadas de plumas abigarradas, y tienen un encanto del que carecen los volúmenes domesticados de la biblioteca. Además, en esta azarosa compañía miscelánea podemos toparnos con algún completo desconocido que, con suerte, se convertirá en el mejor amigo que tenemos en el mundo.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Aventura, Manos

  Virginia Woolf (2009). "Selected Essays", p.311, OUP Oxford

• Vale la pena mencionar, para futuras referencias, que el poder creativo que burbujea tan placenteramente al comenzar un nuevo libro se calma después de un tiempo, y uno sigue adelante con más constancia. Aparecen las dudas. Entonces uno se resigna. La determinación de no rendirse y la sensación de una forma inminente hacen que uno se mantenga en ello más que cualquier otra cosa.

  Virginia Woolf

  Determination, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.37, HMH

• I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, Sound

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

• Los libros de segunda mano son libros salvajes, libros sin hogar; se han reunido en grandes bandadas de plumas abigarradas, y tienen un encanto del que carecen los volúmenes domesticados de la biblioteca.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Curación, Manos

  Virginia Woolf (2009). "Selected Essays", p.311, OUP Oxford

• Los libros son los espejos del alma.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Lectura, Espejos

  Virginia Woolf (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Virginia Woolf (Ilustradas)", p.1835, Delphi Classics.

• By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Travel, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.630, Wordsworth Editions

• En cuanto a mi próximo libro, no lo escribiré hasta que haya crecido en mi mente como una pera madura; colgante, grávida, pidiendo que la corten o se caerá.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Otoño, Escritura

• Saqueo las bibliotecas públicas y las encuentro llenas de tesoros hundidos.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  "Diario de Virginia Woolf: 1920-1924".

• Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.

  Virginia Woolf

  Friendship, Women, Book

  "Obras selectas de Virginia Woolf".

• Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Dark, Squares

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

• This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Women

  A Room of One's Own ch. 4 (1929)

• Entra, pues, y abre los libros de los estantes de tu biblioteca. Porque tienes una biblioteca, y una buena biblioteca. Una biblioteca de trabajo, una biblioteca viva; una biblioteca donde nada está encadenado y nada está encerrado; una biblioteca donde las canciones de los cantantes surgen naturalmente de las vidas de los hígados.

  Virginia Woolf

  Canción, Libro, Biblioteca

  Virginia Woolf (2007). "Obras escogidas de Virginia Woolf", p.828, Ediciones Wordsworth

• They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Mind, Surface

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.626, Wordsworth Editions

• Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Gente, Dar

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.34, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

• Por fin cerró el libro bruscamente, se recostó y respiró hondo, expresando el asombro que siempre caracteriza la transición del mundo imaginario al mundo real.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Book, Transition

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

• For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Judging, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.612, Wordsworth Editions

• Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Sleep, Talking

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.193, Broadview Press

• If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Lectura, Media

  Georg Brand, Virginia Woolf, Koizumi Yakumo, Hernández Felisberto (2017). “ON READING: Le plaisir de lire”, p.43, Pieffe Edizioni via PublishDrive

• Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

• Por supuesto, la literatura es la única carrera espiritual y humana. Incluso la pintura tiende a la torpeza, y la música erotiza a la gente, mientras que cuanto más escribes más amable te vuelves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Espiritual, Libro, Escritura

  Virginia Woolf (1991). "Dardos de papel"

• Estábamos de acuerdo en que la gente ahora tiene miedo de la lengua inglesa. Él [T.S. Eliot] dijo que se debía a que se era aficionado a los libros, pero no se leía lo suficiente. Uno debería leer a fondo todos los estilos.

  Virginia Woolf

  Libro, Lectura, Personas

• Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Domes, Helping

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.611, Wordsworth Editions

• The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Niños, Libro, Lectura

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Sin embargo, Byron nunca hizo té como tú, que llenas la tetera de tal manera que cuando pones la tapa el té se derrama. Hay un charco marrón sobre la mesa, que se escurre entre tus libros y papeles. Ahora lo limpias, torpemente, con tu pañuelo de bolsillo. Luego te vuelves a meter el pañuelo en el bolsillo: eso no es Byron; eso es tan esencialmente tú que si pienso en ti dentro de veinte años, cuando ambos seamos famosos, gotosos e intolerables, será por esa escena: y si estás muerto, lloraré.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Book, Thinking

• Me gustan los libros cuya virtud se dibuja en una o dos páginas. Me gustan las frases que no se mueven aunque las crucen ejércitos.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Army, Two

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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