The British novelist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote many significant novels, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and the essay “A Room of One’s Own.” This excerpt from A Writer’s Diary, entries culled from her personal journals after her death by her husband, the writer and editor Leonard Woolf.
As you read this, notice how Virginia Woolf admires another writer’s discipline and dedication to writing 1000 words a day. This is what she remembers when he dies.
Virginia Woolf-March 28 1931