I believe that 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 its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW]

I believe that 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 its to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish. [VW]

– Vita Sackville-West –

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

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