“I believe the main thing in
beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it
exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's
to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. Now when I sit
down to write an article, I have a net of words which will come down
on the idea certainly in an hour or so. But a novel . . . to be good
should seem, before one writes it, something unwriteable; but only
visible; so that for 9 months one lives in despair, and only when one
has forgotten what one meant does the book seem tolerable.”
--Virginia Woolf
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