Why We Read
What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
— Virginia Woolf, August 24, 1933, A Writer’s Diary
Love this!
Have you read A Writer’s Diary? I loved it. VW often wrote to her future self to remember the agony and ecstasy of writing: future Virginia, take note. It’s was encouraging to see a master face the same things we do.