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Title	:	A Writer's Diary
Author	:	Virginia Woolf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 355 pages
Published	:	March 31st 2003 by Mariner Books (first published 1953)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Language. Writing. Biography. Classics. Autobiography. Memoir

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An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf; Indices.

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Original Title:	A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf
ISBN:	0156027917 (ISBN13: 9780156027915)
Edition Language:	English

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Virginia WoolfOn January 1, 1953, Leonard Woolf completed his Preface to A Writer's Diary, a compilation of extracts from the 26 volumes of diaries that Virginia Woolf wrote from 1915 until 1941, with the last entry written just four days before her death. This book was published before the five-volume set of Woolf's diaries that is still in print today. Leonard Woolf makes it clear that, especially since so many of the people whom Woolf wrote about were still alive at the point, it was

AN incredible book full of insight into Woolf's life, genius, writing and relationships.

AN incredible book full of insight into Woolf's life, genius, writing and relationships.

"I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say This is it? My depression is a harassed feeling. Im looking: but thats not it thats not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it? What can I say to a person's diary which consist of something so raw and honest.I only have read one of Virginia Woolf' writing which is Orlando, so I think when I finish reading all her collections of her books

I had forgotten just how meaningful it was to read Woolfs diary entries that involved her writing and literature. Any writer, whether they have read her works or not, will find this book useful. I plan to read it at least yearly (as I do Alice in Wonderland). It gave me such courage, as the genius Woolf shared her insecurities and how she worked through her novels. I have most of her works and have read most many times. I felt the tug to read them from the beginning alongside her diaries (or at

Full of Virginia Woolf's typical incredible insights, also a really interesting look at the books she was both reading and writing, her process as a writer, and her reaction to the reactions her books received.

I don't really know much about the relationship between Leonard and Virginia Woolf, but this book was lovingly edited. Excerpted from her unabridged diaries, Leonard Woolf culled the bits that he thought to be most about writing--the process, exercises, etc. These entries detail her exhaustive writing and revision process, as well as the relationship between her own reading and writing. She often sets herself schedules and tasks here, which were interesting to read. Reading this book has