“It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole …It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; … that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we – I mean all human beings – are connected with this … I feel that when I am writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.”
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Virginia Woolf,
A Sketch of the Past
