Quote for Monday

Virginia Woolf was a slow writer…Yet she was comparatively a prolific writer. She wrote nine full-length novels, two biographies, and there are seven volumes of literary criticism; in addition to this there must be at least 500,000 unpublished words in her diaries…Every morning, at about 9:30 after breakfast, each of us, as if moved by the law of unquestioned nature, went off and “worked” until lunch at one. It is surprising how much one can produce in a year, whether of buns or books or pots or pictures, if one works hard and professionally for three and a half hours every day for 550 days. That was why, despite her disabilities, Virginia was able to produce so much.

- Leonard Woolf