![]() ![]() Well, he should make up a book from them, I think and then burn the body. If I died, what would Leo make of them? He would be disinclined to burn them he could not publish them. In an entry from 1926, Woolf reflects on her possible future readers:īut what is to become of all these diaries, I asked myself yesterday. It's worth reading if only for the insight that at times 'writing is effort.holding the thing - all the things - the innumerable things - together.' ![]() So, for anyone undertaking a long writing project, there aren't many better companions than this book. But the diary is also a portrait of the inner life of an incredibly conscientious, self-reflective artist. The several-hundred entries record brief moments in Woolf's thinking and development from 1918 to 1941, and because of this - as with any diary - the rapid changes of tone can be overwhelming, even oppressive. As she put it herself in the last entry for 1924: 'I have my ups and downs'. It's an immediate book, put together out of the raw material of Woolf's personal diaries, which she wrote rapidly and with an honesty which is sometimes painful to read even almost a century later. I read half a page and was instantly immersed. Nearing the halfway point of my current book last week, I happened to pick up my copy of A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, which I hadn't opened for quite a few years. ![]()
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